Word: windswept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the arrival of another Yale game on its bi-annual circuit to Cambridge the Vagabond feels the long departed spirit of youth creeping over him once more. It is the sort of thing that infuses a peculiar warmth throughout his windswept diggings high up in Memorial Tower and makes the fresh log on the hearth glow to a merry Crimson...
Along a Maine island's rocky, windswept shore briskly stepped a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert. When he arrived at a white, two-story, shingled house, surrounded by towering trees, thick shrubs, he turned in at its gate. North Haven townsfolk had told him this was the summer home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow; that the blue-shirted rustic hoeing in the garden was Caretaker Hubert O. Grant. Quietly the young man approached the caretaker, spoke: "Good morning, sir. I'm sick. The doctor has told me to stay outdoors. Can you give...
...sled runs of Chamonix the toboggan slides of Quebec or even the ski jump at Hanover, can now find a slightly milder joy on the river. From the Lars Anderson Bridge up to Watertown the ice is frozen, and one may choose whether he will frequent the brightly-lighted, windswept expanse near Newell, or go adventuring among the dark coves beyond the infirmary...
...discovery, in a coal mine on the windswept mountain slopes near Billings, Mont., of a fossil molar tooth of human appearance, mixed in with fossil clams and lizards known to belong in the Eocene period, 50 to 60 million years ago, caused a great deal of newspaper talk last autumn. But experts were inclined to view the molar as that of euprotogonia, doglike Eocene quadruped with manlike teeth in its bearlike-horselike head...
Playing through a serious rainstorm over the windswept Knollwood course at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, the University of Chicago's "Maroon" team slashed drives from wet tees, mashied onto muggy greens, sank putts into brimful cups, to win the Big 10* golf championship last week. Best golf for the day was played by Ralph Kunstadter, University of Illinois, with two rounds...