Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is the law?" is the recurrent question asked by a republican nation. With deliberate speed-though the summer holidays approach-with majestic instancy, nine remote men make answer in thousands of decisions, mostly technical and dull...
...contemporaries than any Chief Justice in U. S. history. Due to the increasing intricacy of the connection between fundamental law and business, the decisions made by him and his fellows affect the lives of his contemporaries more immediately than the decisions of any of their predecessors. When they seek summer rest-Mr. Taft at Murray Bay-they will have finished a record year of "big" decisions...
...keeping his promise. Last week, he abolished the Company's Department of Labor, which cared for the workers' welfare, published a magazine called The Booster, provided nurses and physicians for the sick, gave all employes' children a free two weeks' holiday at beautiful summer camps. All of these were hobbies of former President William Wood and his son, the vice-President, who resigned, recently, about the time the company "passed" a dividend...
...Explorer MacMillan's intention to pay a brief visit to the North Pole while he is in that neighborhood next summer. If he does, he may have company. Last week, a radio despatch from the steamer Pram, plowing through cold seas for Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, reminded the world that Captain Roald Amundsen, after cruel vicissitudes (TIME, Nov. 24), had got an aero-arctic expedition underway...
...complete plans of the combined Oxford and Cambridge track teams which will journey to the United States for their international match with the Harvard-Yale teams this summer, were announced yesterday in a letter to the H. A. A. The itinerary was sent by Dr. R. Salisbury Woods, Graduate Treasurer of Cambridge University, who will be in charge of the English trackmen, to Fred W. Moore of Harvard who will act in the same capacity for the Americans...