Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late last summer, Savinkov was caught by the ogpu (secret police, successors to the Tsars' okrana) and subsequently brought to trial (TIME, Sept. 8). Although the organizer of many political assassinations, including those of Von Plehve and Grand Duke Sergius, he had become an enemy of the Bolsheviki...
...spring turns into summer, flowers begin to bloom in all the world, and, in China, with the propitious season, war usually commences. A rumor descended upon Peking, last week, like a spring rain...
...some of the educational policies and conceptions they might expect from Editor Frank, Wisconsin had but to hark back to a speech he made, last summer, at the University of Michigan : "I dislike to speak of education, religion and politics as if they were three distinct fields. They are, or should be, an indivisible unity. . . . The professor, the parson and the politician are at work on the same job . . . the achievement of 'the good life' for the citizen and for the Nation...
Prettily illustrated posters, alluring circulars and the honeyed words of professional conference promoters have done much to represent Silver Bay as a glorified summer resort rather than a meeting ground for those who wish to discuss the present-day problems of Christianity...
Perhaps this picture was a just one several years ago, when the delegates from preparatory schools, men's, and women's colleges convened together, and the chief attractions for college men were the opportunities for mild summer flirtations and proselyting among sub-freshmen...