Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paavo Nurmi will probably oppose several University runners when he enters the B. A. A. meet to be held at the Arena on January 31, according to Jackko Mikkola, assistant coach of the track team and Finnish Olympic coach last summer...
...having served three terms in the office of Mayor of Laurens, S. C., his birth place, and having won the esteem of his fellow-townsmen as a lawyer interested in a number of enterprises including banking, glass, cotton goods, cotton seed products and the development of waterpower. But, last summer, when he went back to his state, he was defeated for renomination by Cole Blease, onetime Governor (TIME, Sept. 8). So Mr. Dial is a "lame duck," must retire from the Senate in March...
...postal employes. It was to have cost in the neighborhood of $68,000,000 a year. Last June, just before Congress adjourned, President Coolidge vetoed the bill on the grounds that no provision was made therein for raising the revenue to pay the increased cost. All summer the veto lay on the desks of the President pro tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House...
...idea in the ''development of the work-play-study school," which seems the logical answer to the nation's educational problems. But if the Toms, Dicks and Harrys, the Marys, Janes and Joans ever catch their fathers and mothers agreeing to the monstrous proposal that summer, Christmas and Easter vacations are not an inseparable part of school curricula, their cereals will not remain uneaten on their plates, but will be plastered on the walls, ceilings, floors of many a breakfast room. As for the World, its unfortunate delivery boys will be ambushed as they make their morning...
...absurd for New York City to retain a school calendar devised for the purpose of releasing big boys from rural school for haying and harvesting. It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten weeks' summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...