Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capacity to Pay. In preliminary negotiations concluded with the Italian Ambassador and Signer Alberti last summer, the American Debt Commission asked for a statement of Italy's capacity to pay. This was presented by the present Commission in the form of "24 monographs," collections of statistics bearing on the point. The Treasury had of course had its own experts prepare similar statistics. Mark Sullivan, one of the ablest and most reliable of the Washington correspondents, was last week responsible for the assertion that the Italian estimates of their capacity to pay were slightly greater than the American estimates...
...First of all, I received a shock during the first few minutes after my arrival in Cambridge which came near upsetting all my calculations. Rushing up out of the 'pill box', all on fire with ambition, and the antennae of my mind sharpened by a whole summer's curiosity, alert to the point, of pain, I was on the point of dashing across the square and throwing myself into the conflict when--whiz!--a Ford shot around the corner and, hitting a poor pedestrian not five feet from me, dragged him out of sight...
...West, where the he-men carry ice during the summer vacations and study the care of pigs at college in the winter, the admirers of strength in its crudest form--namely, that displayed in football, have decided that nothing less than a seat in Congress will suffice for their conquering heroes. A certain russet-topped citizen of Illinois, whose last name calls to mind a once important political movement that took place in that state, will be the first athlete to receive such emolument--provided his followers have their...
...summer workmen have hammered, walls have risen, grass has sprouted in Baltimore where the Wilmer Institute - greatest eye-research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...
Fifteen years ago Thorpe was in his prime. In 1911 and 1912, playing with Carlisle, he won a place on Walter Camp's All-American elevens. The next summer on the U. S. Olympic team at Stockholm, he won the all-around track and field championship, but his medals were taken away from him when some snoop found out that he had played in a professional baseball game. He signed with the New York Giants, but soon showed that he was not good enough for big league baseball. Though speedy in the field and on the bases, he could...