Word: vernally
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Spring seems to be arriving at last; at least the snow has turned to rain in Cambridge, and the frozen ground has oozed into the perennial mud. It is not too early to start planning for the vernal equinox...
...kind of impassioned prattle that made Franchise Sagan a sensation at 18 and a bestselling bore at 22 continues to infect young girl writers. Two current examples of vernal volubility, each the work of a 14-year...
...clutches of this vernal mood, we take delight in all that we see. We can no longer be moved to anger by social injustice, graft, incompetence, the Student Council, and the Republican party. We can nonchalantly ignore the need for slower reform in the History Department and faster reform in the English Department. We can eat what is put before us in the dining halls. We can be positive and pleasant...
That's what New England decided as it suffered its third blizzard since the vernal equinox. The four to 15 inches of snow falling on the northeast marked the worst April snowstorm in years...
...Caesar as in Giraudoux's Hector, the great warrior is the great hater of war; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Ulysses, the wise man sadly grasps the impotence of wisdom. And both plays are as autumnal in their ruefulness as they remain vernal in their...