Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edison, four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his electric light bulb, had signalized his annual winter hegira by an announcement that sounded fraught with gold...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company found itself last week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked...
They got out, shook hands with the pilot, were addressed by Walter Beech, president of Curtiss-Wright Sales Corp., professed themselves satisfactorily air-minded. Curtiss-Wright proposed to take up at least 500 executives during the winter to familiarize them with air travel, make potential customers for passenger air services...
...receipt of the resignation of Professor Coolidge '95 from the Board of Directors of the Watch and Ward was made to the CRIMSON last evening by Rev. Raymond Calkins '90, President of the Society. Professor Coolidge has been connected with the House Plan since his appointment last winter as House Master of Lowell House, one of the two new resident units now nearing completion...
...growth of the popularity of boxing at Harvard in the last few years has generated a movement in the University to make this one of the regular intercollegiate winter sports...