Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned paper read before the American Astronomical Society in a cosy Columbia University lecture hall, Meteorologist Edgar William Woolard of the U. S. Weather Bureau explained last week that lowest annual temperatures ordinarily occur in the U. S. in the period from ten to 40 days after the winter solstice (Dec. 21 or 22, day when the sun is farthest south of the Equator). From Montana to Maine and as far south as Memphis and Macon, U. S. inhabitants could well believe him. In two waves real winter cold rolled down on them from Alaska and the Canadian Northwest...
...this, in the old days lusty, ingenious, scatterbrained. Wilder seeks to recapture in a period spoof that is just short of burlesque. He neatly touches his stock characters and classic antics with quaintness and whimsical fancy. At his best, he gives The Merchant of Yonkers the nostalgia as well as the noise of an oldfashioned German street band. Where most modern farces have a hard, alcoholic hilarity, The Merchant of Yonkers for two acts romps and lets fly with all the innocence of a pillow fight. One of the best casts of the season throws the pillows for all they...
...traditional style, Broadway, after a haggard week-before-Christmas, had a full-to-bursting holiday week. One matinee day accumulated, around Manhattan, 681 standees, biggest matinee box office since 1929. The period was crammed with openings, three of them in the nature of comebacks...
...sport. The world might be going politically and economically arsy-versy, but the coaches failed to recommend a single major football change for 1939. Said President-elect Lou Little (Columbia): "The coaches feel a nice balance has been reached between offense and defense. We are now in for a period of stabilization...
...Harvard ski squad, headed by Captain Bill Hinton, held a training period at St. Sauveur, Canada, from December 26 to January 3, in which practice in jumping, slalom, downhill, cross country was held daily...