Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University and Freshman baseball teams will have their first outdoor practice on Monday providing the weather and ground conditions remain favorable. Both nines are being rapidly whipped into shape by Coaches Slattery and Davidson by daily practice in the cage...
Because of the cold weather and the ice on the river the crews from both Newell and Weld boat houses have had to be content with rowing inside for the last two days. Today they will probably go out again, and tomorrow the first informal race of the season will be held in the Charles Basin between the six Freshman eights. The four crews of autumn crew material, the experienced football material, and the inexperienced football material will be the contestants over a one-mile course. The principal object of the race is to help Coach Bert Haines in grading...
Spring football practice at the University, which was scheduled to begin last Monday and was then postponed until yesterday, has again been delayed because of the cold weather and the softness of the ground. The day now set for work to begin is next Monday...
Unless there is a change in the weather conditions which will make the ground too soft for use, the spring football season at the University will begin this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock when the squad will report at Soldiers Field for its first practice. At the meeting which was held last Friday in the Varsity Club about 120 men reported, but it is probable that, because of the large number engaged in other spring sports, only about 55 will...
...bare baker's dozen of words, eked out by ample illustrative gesture, should keep a man alive. But, in cold weather his conversation might become dull, and his writing would always be extremely telegraphic. He picks up an adjective here and a verb there until he can talk rather fluently of the weather and politics. Indeed, such writers as Hobbes, Swift and Defoe won success on very few words...