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...Observatory has also produced a formula for finding the coldest week of this cold winter. By checking over 67 years of records, the weathermen have decided that the week between January 30 and February 8 is the winter's coldest, with Groundhog Dav. February 2, putting the greatest squeeze on the thermometer. For the six weeks after that, the mean daily temperature will run at a frosty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Subnormal November Harbingers Hard Winter, Weathermen Think | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

According to ancient groundhog tradition, a new group of furry little animals will come up with a new Crime next Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egad! No Crime! | 2/2/1950 | See Source »

...spent Groundhog Day quietly, but darted an occasional glance around her cage in search of the proverbial shadow, Poor lighting rendered her vigilance fruitless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's Cagey Groundhog Frustrated | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

...Groundhog Day is a strictly American slant on the 1457-year-old celebration of Candlemas. A feature-hungry press has perpetuated the colonial fantasy that groundhogs emerge from their winter repose on February 2 to observe the coming of spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's Cagey Groundhog Frustrated | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

Association of Groundhog Day with Candlemas stems from the ancient belief, widespread throughout the superstitious Christian world, that a sunny February 2 is a sure forecast of a cold spring. As the canny Scotch put it. "If Candlemas be fair and clear, there'll be two winters in the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's Cagey Groundhog Frustrated | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

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