Word: winter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...
...Lehmann yesterday gave out an official criticism of the crew, expressing on the whole much satisfaction with the way in which the men have worked during the winter and with the results obtained. He has not heretofore cared to make any definite statements in regard to the crew, because he has been with them so short a time this spring. The criticism is as follows...
...When I returned and took the crew on the 19th of March they had been on the water about a week, and during the winter they had done a certain amount of work, not so much as has been usual in former years, in the tank, under the direction of Mr. Storrow, Mr. Mumford and Captain Goodrich...
...were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...
...were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...