Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modestly makes light of his part in turning Nurmi from an ordinary runner into an Olympic champion. He said, "Nurmi owes much to his persistence and our methods of training which brought out his latent abilities. I coached him from 1918 to 1920, and of course last summer at the Olympics, but by that time he could coach himself...
...Republican Senators, 21 incontinently fled the state. They settled just across the border at Rutland, Mass. They remained there. The Bartlett House, where they were staying in the summer, found it worth while to put in steam heat to accommodate them when winter came on. One Senator died. Another, a former divine, became a lecturer at Worcester and is not expected ever to return. The others lived amicably in sun and shade at the expense of the Republican State Committee-an expense estimated at from...
Mars. Studies of the surface temperatures of Mars as indicated by its radiation showed that, in winter, its North Pole has a temperature of -94° Fahrenheit; in summer, its South Pole has -76°. In equatorial regions, the temperature varies from 40° to 60°, but the range of temperature between day and night may be as great as 180°. The conclusion is that, if life exists, it is confined to mosses and lichens among the plants and troglodytic animals.-Dr. William W. Coblentz, U. S. Bureau of Standards...
...Last summer each political party included an equivocal plank in its platform, and one presidential candidate devoted much breath and labor in explaining this plan of exit from the situation. The important factor in the decision is public indifference. That a principal resource of the South, providing heat, light, and factory power, is to be chiefly freed from public control and left within the decision of private interests, seems a step of no importance...
...Whitbeck '27 is ranked number 17 in the New York district. Washburn has been at the top of the tennis competition for sev- several years, but has never won the national title. Kelleher is one of the leading players in New York City. Whitbeck astounded tennis followers last summer by defeating S. H. Voshell who is number five in this list in the invitation tournament at Newport...