Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While all the other good Marmotae in the country were out doing their bit for the weather bureau yesterday, the Medical School's specimen was under enforced hibernation...
According to tradition, if they soe their shadows, they beat a hasty retreat to their burrows for six more weeks of winter. If the day is cloudy, however, they allegedly remain above ground, confident of continuing mild weather...
...General Patton. It assumes that the Swedish Life Guard Grenadiers' regimental journal, from which it quoted, also intended no hurt to the memory of a great soldier. General Patton's own book, War As I Knew It, edited by Mrs. Patton, quotes him as saying, when the weather cleared after he had ordered Chaplain O'Neill to pray: "God damn! Look at the weather. That O'Neill sure did some potent praying...
...California's Santa Anita, richest and most prosperous of all, attendance in the first 20 days of the winter season was down 24.4% from last year (partly as a result of bad weather); betting had slumped $10,459,016. Said one horseman last week, casting a cold eye over the thin turnout: "This is more like it. Racing was getting to be a honky-tonk-too many people...
...more; Santa Anita's cut of the betting runs from 7% to 9%). But if Doc was alarmed he showed no sign of it. His greatest disappointment seemed to be that injured Citation, the wonder horse, would not run at Santa Anita this winter. The snow and weather had been doublecrossing Doc, nipping his hundreds of thousands of marigolds in the bud. Was he planning any economy moves? Not Doc Strub. Said he: "I'm not planning any cuts, this season or the next...