Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genteel Wimpole Street, Flush passed into polite and celibate seclusion. Though not by nature a lapdog, Flush sacrificed his roaming instincts and became a devoted stay-at-home, never stirring from Miss Barrett's room except on her rare excursions to take the air in fine weather. By the time brisk Mr. Browning appeared to lay siege to Miss Barrett's fluttering heart, Flush was almost a softy. He viewed Mr. Browning with alarm, did his best to break up the match. On two occasions Flush attacked him, bit his stalwart leg to no effect. A graceful realist...
...Roosevelt and the coronation of Democracy with its owners in 1829. His thesis, conveyed through the apt medium of presidential biography, is briefly this: since 1789, America has progressed through three cycles of governmental control, through oligarchy, democracy, to plutocracy. Democracy, for the West "an inescapable condition, like the weather," swarmed over and engulfed the separate dreams of Hamilton, the Adamses, and Jefferson, leaving instead of plan, an anarchy which found its master in capital. As Mr. Agar sees it, we are faced today with the three alternatives of Dictatorship, Communism, or an enlightened Adams Democracy...
...small group of lacrosse players are working out regularly with Coach Robert Poole in fall practice, designed to teach inexperienced men the fundamentals of the game. If a sufficient number of men turn out, Poole hopes to have the squad scrimmaging before cold weather. Nelson N. cochrane 2G, captain of the 1932 team and member of the Boston Lacrosse Club last year, will assist in the coaching...
...infield and batting practice during the past week. Yesterday, sides were appointed by Coach Mitchell, and the first practice game was played. Candidates for next spring's Freshman nine were included in the lineups. Practice games of this sort will be played every day form now on until the weather becomes too cold for baseball...
...inhabitant, joining the crowd around the stove at the village store one nipping winter day, asserts that he can remember much colder weather, to prove it tells a Munchausenish yarn about an all-night fight culminating in a double murder. One of the skeptics is still unconvinced...