Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...binding department of Widener. Books are now bound two levels below the ground under the front portion of the Library. All work must be done with the aid of artificial light and the enormous foundation pillars make the available space very limited. The binding is greatly retarded during, the summer months due to the excessive humidity causing book covers to curl almost immediately upon being bound...
Such was the fate of the Pinta, owned by Yachtsman W. J. Curtis, who last summer sailed his ship from New York to Santander, Spain, in a race for the Queen of Spain...
...year ago airplanes brushed through the clouds above the wild Atlantic, in this last summer tiny boats, smaller than those which first traversed it, have been the most spectacular traffickers upon its wastes. The smallest of all these is the canoe, equipped with oar-locks, sails and a motor, in which Franz Romer started out last March from Lisbon to "row" across the Atlantic to New York. This canoe, the Deutsche Sport, arrived in Saint Thomas a month ago (TIME, Aug. 13) and left Porto Rico two weeks later, bound for Florida. The southeastern skies grew dark and a huge...
Trans-Atlantic Talk. When William Crapo Durant, stock market operator, was in Europe this summer he spent more than $25,000 on trans-Atlantic telephone calls to the U. S. But never for one call did he, nor anyone else, ever spend as much as F. B. Odium did last week. For 95 minutes of speech he paid $1,425. He is director of several U. S. electrical companies, notably, of Electric Bond & Share...
...Last summer, it created the International Envelope Co. and proceeded to figure on a bid. It cut close to $5,000.000 from the existing contract price. Middle West Supply, guessing shrewdly what was in store, also cut deeply, but not enough. International Envelope, with a bid of $15,300,000, thought it had won the guessing contest, since its bid was some half million dollars under its rival...