Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...
This afternoon the University and Freshman track teams will start practice for the winter season, which is culminated in the Harvard-Dartmouth Cornell triangular meet at the Boston Garden, and the annual Intercollegiate meet...
...Harvard University instrumental Clubs will give the second performance of the fall season at 8.30 o'clock Friday in the Hingham High School Auditorium, under the auspices of the Harvard Club of Hingham. Proceeds from the concert will be devoted to a fund for the establishment of a club scholarship...
With the holiday and Saturday football games written into the books, the fall season may definitely be said to be over. Post mortems, various all-teams, and preparations for the next gridiron campaign will occupy alike fans, scribes, and coaching staffs for the coming month or so until winter sports get past the stage of warming...
...confusion and disorder of the season, three teams have emerged unscathed, victorious in every game of a hard schedule. They are Notre Dame, Purdue, and Pittsburgh, two Indiana institutions and one from western Pennsylvania. The consistent power which has characterized the play of all three teams throughout the fall has placed them in a football aristocracy all their own. Other elevens have had near-perfect records and some have won all their contests, but none has been so convincing in victory, so steadily capable as this trio, the "Big Three" of 1929 football. To mention the names...