Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convinced that the majority Parties of the National Assembly were in agreement with the League of Nations' reconstruction program, he felt that they did not support his measures for carrying out the program. He also referred to his decreased capacity for work since he was wounded last summer (TIME, June 9), said that, all things taken in consideration, he felt he must resign. He recommended that Dr.. Rudolf Ramek of Salzburg be his successor...
...Professor of Greek at the University of the South. During the World War, he campaigned in France, first as a lieutenant with the 304th Field Artillery and afterwards as a major of the General Staff Corps. He has always kept up his classical interests. He spent last summer with one Will Percy, Mississippi poet, in Greece and Asia Minor...
...treated with high-handedness lest they presume too much; and, not unnaturally, the "foreigners" resent that attitude and react to it. This has nothing to do with the Olympic Games, but I cannot go past this point without saying that there were times in Paris and elsewhere this summer when I was actually ashamed of being an American!. And I have felt many times, too that no American should be allowed to travel abroad until he had proven his ability to act as a gentleman under all circumstances. I do not wonder any more at any dislike or suspicion...
...Libby who last summer brought forth from President Coolidge his famous letter defending the selection of September 12 as National Defense Day and thus bringing this topic to the attention of the nation. He will include in his speech the moot question of military training at schools and colleges in this country...
...available bull, swart Firpo, shares the destiny of the old grey mare. Last week, in Newark, one Charles Weinert, seasoned ring roue, was given his fling at the once-wild Argentinian, and in twelve rounds caused his victim even more discomfort than did Heavyweight Champion Dempsey one summer night last year, than did big black Harry Wills two months ago. Dempsey was mercifully swift with the coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour's torture. He hammered the Firpo brisket, he split the Firpo...