Word: equinoxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleepy village of Manchester, Vt. (pop. 325) sat up and took notice last week. White-haired ladies from porch rockers of the Equinox House, straw-hatted farmers, Green Mountain tourists and artists by the station-wagonload jammed into the red brick gymnasium where the Southern Vermont Artists' Association was staging its 20th annual show...
...there were side trips to Wheaton (a mere 23 miles) and a sprint trial to Radcliffe on 1890 vintage two-wheelers. Along about 1939, the powers that cycle got together and decided on the Wellesley race as an annual affair, and it has been held, mostly after the vernal equinox ever since, with the exception of the war years...
Winter sports will melt from the scene this weekend, several days before the vernal equinox makes its official appearance on March...
Dolan, champing at the arrival of the Equinox, has stolen the march on New England weather and the rest of the University by being the first 1947 summer seersucker jacket in the Yard. The nattiest of his four cotton Brooks Brothers models stood between his knitted tie and North Atlantic winds yesterday, as less hardy specimens still relied on tweed and corduroy...
Holy Serpents! Backed by the blessings of the gods and the winds of the spring equinox, the Argonauts set sail. On the Island of Lemnos, which was peopled solely by women, the Argonauts generously stopped off to help out with the spring sowing. Nine months later, 200 children were born on Lemnos, of whom no less than 60 were said to be the spitting image of Hercules...