Word: season
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iceberg season on the North Atlantic is March 1 to July 1. The bergs are fragments of the mile-thick ice sheet which covers most of Greenland, sends glaciers down to the coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter...
...conference in London which resulted in the creation of the International Derelict Destruction, Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service. They agreed to pay dues on a basis of respective tonnage, asked the U. S. to manage the Ice Patrol. Now two U. S. Coast Guard cutters, during the berg season, patrol the danger area in alternate shifts, report every berg sighted, keep big ones under constant surveillance. They pay little attention, however, to ice fragments less than 100 feet long, for these melt away in a day or less. At night the cutters simply drift, so no harm is done...
Last week as the U. S. commencement season opened, college presidents, who differ from other manufacturers in shipping their goods only once a year, began to show their 1939 product. They expected to turn out about 155,000 graduates (a few more than last year), only slightly damaged by war scares and goldfish gulping. But observers who wanted to evaluate contemporary U. S. higher education turned their eyes not on these untried graduates but on the college presidents themselves (for a representative group, see adjacent columns...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, last night confirmed the reports that there would be no Jayvee competition in baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, and fencing during the 1939-40 season...
Rated as one of the title contenders before the schedule started, Yale was an early season disappointment, but of late the Blue have begun to click. They have extended their winning streak to three straight. The triumph over Princeton was the first meeting between the two clubs, and was achieved behind the six-hit twirling of Moe Jublitz, veteran southpaw...