Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John ("Gene") Tunney's having whipped Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight boxing championship. "My boy won," she said. "He's an angel, and so good looking. . . . I wouldn't mind a bit being engaged to that great big, handsome, blond boy. I saw him in Miami last winter and gave him a gold medal of the Blessed Virgin, and they tell me he carried it with him in the fight...
Johns Hopkins* University, which rates itself and is often rated as the first and last word in U. S. higher education, last week rounded off its semicentennial celebration, begun last winter (TIME, March 1). It was a superlative event, demanding a superlative program...
Phillips Petroleum. Some directors of the Phillips Petroleum Co. might have been worried as they gathered for their meeting last week. Demand for oil is falling off with the approach of winter and the consequent lessening of motor driving. But oil production is now averaging about 2,250,000 barrels daily, due chiefly to a newly developed Oklahoma field (the Seminole). President Frank Phillips soothed their worries with his operating report. In July, August and September his earnings (before depletion and depreciation were deducted, were $10,626,579, a company record. His clear earnings for the first nine months...
Construction on the new building, which will provide shelf room for '550,000 volumes, being discontinued during the winter, work on the superstructure will begin early next spring, and according to present plans, the library will be completed and ready for occupancy by the fall...
...which you suspect him. Then by confessing to him (man to man) your own former weaknesses you will elicit a full confession from him. . . . This is often the kind of drastic, spiritual operation which alone can prevent a superficial repentance and unreal conversion. In New York City, last winter, a university student leader came to talk with Mr. Buchman about entering the Christian ministry. . . . Mr. Buchman answered his questions on the ministry to the best of his ability, but still the man seemed unsatisfied. They had finished dinner with little accomplished, and Mr. Buchman then invited him to his room...