Word: biannual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ascent, Vag muses, is little better than The Descent. The numbness which has held him in thrall all this time--and which has been the only thing to make life possible at all in the long torturing weeks of the Biannual Heat--now stubbornly refuses to depart. Everything--mind, body,--seems permanently, albeit painlessly, frozen with the icy breath of the Great Fear, which is said to be the odorless exhaust generated by one of the machines which throb all around Vag. Once or twice since The Descent began, Vag has been able to rouse himself from this lethargy...
...Combing the river," as natives call such biannual shark drives, baffled Father Laplante completely, baffled as well those who saw his film. Even the missionary, who has spent ten years trying to implant French Catholicism in Fiji, was ready to admit possibility of something preternatural. He remembered having tried to convert a certain native. The man demurred; he was already a Methodist. When the tribe combed the river, the dusky Methodist waded inside the net with the vampire-priests, was bitten by a shark...
This match, which is a biannual affair, is played for the Prentice Trophy which was donated by Bernon S. Prentice '05, Chairman of the United States Lawn Tennis Association and former captain and champion at Harvard...
...well-known ocean-going yachts, has functioned so efficiently that last week's statement by the skipper of the Flame amounts almost to a rule of ocean sailing. In 1931 the Stephens brothers won the Newport-to-Plymouth trans-atlantic race in 17 days, then won the biannual Fastnet race for the first time. Last year Dorade was first in her class in the New London-to-Bermuda run. This spring, with a crew of five intruding famed Sherman Hoyt, who has navigated the Atlantic on everything except an inflated tire tube, the Dorade sailed for Norway...
When examinations had been stressed at lunch to the exclusion of all intelligent conversation, the Vagabond yesterday left a petition at University Hall to have them abolished. It is time that something of the sort is done. These biannual excitations inducing a kind of subsidiary froth are naturally abhorrent to the epicure of food and talk. Dishonoring the tolerant muse of wisdom with such mental debauchery can be endured in silence; but the gibberings of the Bereaved One of Mt. Auburn St. should not be allowed to interfere with digestion...