Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although Gentleman Gambler "Old Tom" Heany had for a time made a very respectable gambling house from the remains. Senator Warren passed the red-brick schoolhouse, the Elks Club house, bumped bustling Babbitts, paused before the skeleton of an impressive modern building - his new theatre, which will open this winter. Manhattan producers are pleased to have a stopping-off place between Denver and California. Soon stage-effects will gleam where once campfires flickered. Again half-clad dancers will leap while "Bom!" goes the drum...
...approximately five feet eight inches above mean, low down, dirty sea level, they are going to build a beautiful early Spanish missing-style $10,000,000.35 insane asylum. They got the idea from Dr. [Roach] Straton when he was down here following vice when it moved south for the winter...
...replace the Taft agreement. When approached, Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg ("Nervous Nellie"*) said that the terms of the agreement would be kept strictly secret. Of course the treaty is subject to ratification by the Senate, and the Senate will probably debate the treaty in open session next winter. The principal terms of the agreement...
When the Nine Power Chinese Customs Conference assembled at Peking (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.) its august corps of diplomats and experts remarked with favor upon the clear crispness of the air, the unexpected comfort of their quarters, the warm hospitality of foreigners resident in Peking. Came winter and the delegates turned their collars up, hovered o'er inadequate stoves. Came spring, and blinding sandstorms swept the city, rasped the delegates' throats with an abrasive fog. Came summer, blazing, searing. Still the accomplishments of the conference were almost nil. Little or nothing has been accomplished because the Government...
Wheat. Estimated to be: spring wheat 199,595,000 bu.; winter wheat 597,762,000 bu.; was: spring wheat 270,879,000 bu.; winter wheat 398,486,000 bu. last year; sold currently at $1.40 to $1.45 a bushel. The U. S. leads the world in production. Next is India with one half as much. Kansas leads the U. S. for winter wheat, North Dakota for spring wheat. Harvest is almost completed in the North and West. In the Dakotas and Minnesota the crop (spring) was short on account of dry weather, although showers helped the late crop of North...