Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...setting thus described by him to the Senate, grim-visaged Senator Thomas J. Walsh has a bower, a summer-home on the northeastern end of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana. He owns two-thirds of an acre with a 150-foot lake frontage, purchased from the holder of the original land patent before the park was created in 1910. Last week the grey Walsh mustache bristled more ferociously than ever as he did legislative battle in defense of his summer hearthstone and of a governmental principle...
...union ship, which most desirable vessels are, shall take any seaman other than one who intends to follow the sea for a vocation. Regardless of the fact that most sailors never remain on one ship for more than two voyages, the fact that students only work for a summer is cited as an objection to employing them...
Another of the Union's criticisms is that the employment of students in the summer months deprives many sailors of a job. It is true that the utilization of students is the cause of some scarcity in sermon's berths but the notorious overslon of the sallor to steady work counteracts this to some extent...
...genuine sallors off the high seas but it is doubtful if they will succeed. It is not only the least organized labor group, but its members are all too ready to sell their Able Seaman's ticket to any person who desires a touch of nautical life. And the summer sailor may still satisfy his yearning for a vacation position on shipboard by the use of a little ingenuity and nerve...
Student answers are filed on a chart to which is later added information in re their curricular and extracurricular activities, their activities and interests during the summer. Interviews with professors about work or ambitions are also noted, and the subsequent results...