Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of six lecture courses will be given this spring Tuesday and Thursday evenings at M. I. T., with recesses for Midyear examinations and the spring vacation. The students receiving the highest average in Ground School will be selected for flight training this summer, and upon passing the Flight Physical Examinations, will be ordered to Squantum for 45 days active duty. Every student is enrolled as a seaman, second class, and while being taught to fly and receiving his 30 hours of "solo" time, is paid, on an average, $85 a month...
...Ground School at M. I. T. and the flight training at Squantum are the first two steps in the complete course leading up to a commission as Ensign in the Naval Reserve. The Squantum course is followed either the same or the succeeding summer by another 46 days of advanced flight training at the Naval Air Station at Hampton Roads, Va., and finally by a professional examination for commission...
...stature,slim, dark, shell-spectacled. His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Saturday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality, and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop...
...than any other spot in the Arctic, and which for this reason is more difficult of access even than the North Pole itself. Scientifically, there are reasons for supposing that the Ice Pole is surrounded by land. Geese, gulls, eider ducks fly northward from Alaska and Siberia in early summer and return with fledglings. Prevailing winds indicate high ground in the direction of the Ice Pole, as do the Arctic tides as charted by Harris. Whaling stories contribute the authority of legend to the guesswork of science. If there is land and if it is attached...
...importance of Soviet trade and the stability of the Soviet government." When New York reporters waylaid poor Mr. Schley and cross-examined him as to the accuracy of this pronouncement, he ascribed the luncheon to social motives. He in fact owed the Soviets a luncheon, since last summer they entertained him in Russia...