Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast last week went the Navy's general board to discuss tonnage reduction with the President. Grizzled old officers were assured that their opinions would not be ignored. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, who had interrupted his summer yachting to be present, went back to the State Department to call Ambassador Dawes in London on the trans-Atlantic telephone, to appraise him of what the White House had discussed...
...This summer the Brooklyn Eagle revived the oldtime newspaper practice of printing daily weather maps, less for agriculture than for flying. The feature was popular. The Eagle has been flooded with requests for copies of maps. The New York Evening Post and other large newspapers have followed the Eagle's lead, found weather maps good circulation-getters...
Speaking to the summer faculty and students of Columbia University he was, as usual, prevailingly optimistic. Said he: ''There will be more revolutionary changes in our forms of ecclesiastical organization than we now can easily imagine. . . . Religion itself will always rise unconquered . . . for the complicated life forced on us by our mechanized civilization only emphasizes the difficulty and evokes the need of spiritual superiority in the individual...
When the first call goes through, the event will mark not only a noteworthy technical achievement. It will be even more likely to nourish financial hopes among holders of telephone company stocks. All summer long A. T. & T. stock, usually conservative in its behavior, has been booming along in the stock market at prices up to 292, which is 23 times earnings. The hopefulness of the speculators has not been based on expected revenue from telephone conversations with Buenos Aires. The point is that A. T. & T. is in a position to take the lead in any major telephone merger...
What went on was similar to many a pedagogic congress held this summer, every summer. Three hundred papers were read, debated. There were speeches on the Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...