Word: sleeted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With sleet and examinations forcing continued cave dwelling the undergraduate, gazing at obscure texts and obscure days of the D.W. Griffith variety occasionally wonders both at the texts and the days. Aristotle has admitted that man is "a thinking being"--and the undergraduate--Mr. Mencken notwithstanding--is usually a man. So while the logs leap into flame or the tries to make them, his wonder becomes fused into a definite inquiry: why, after all, is he here, looking so very glum while the sun shines on other fields and making hay is so delightfully easy...
...Ambassador's son, 12-year-old Henry Howard, attending Newman School, famed Catholic preparatory institution at Lakewood, N. J., was one night last week forced out into a driving sleet storm when fire demolished his dormitory...
...When marrow chills beneath the driving sleet...
Fifty years ago the deaths resulting from celebrating and reviewing the battle of Lexington exceeded the number killed in the actual battle. Last Monday's manoeuvres are too recent to account the cost of such patriotic exposure. Those hundreds who stood bareheaded in the sleet and dampness to hiss the British as they came on from Boston, were doubtless warmed by the glow of national pride...
...completely out of place this year. This is not so much due, however, to crop conditions as to the late Spring in the U. S. Ordinarily demand at the fruit stores begins in April, and exceeds the supply until about July 4. But consumers do not eat bananas in sleet storms and cold weather. This year the banana dealers' yellow bunches dangled under their canvas awnings in vain. Importation into New York by one large company is only about half of normal, while prices on a bunch are down from an average of $4.50 to $3.00. The perplexities...