Word: winter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prize the Lowell Club was given a decision over the George Gray Club and the Witanagamot Club won from the Kent Club. These two winning clubs are the survivors of the contest which has continued through the fall between the seven winning clubs of the second year competition last winter. The George Gray, Kent, Lowell, Warren, Williston and Witanagamot clubs were those which began the elimination contest early in October...
...third phase of the war began on July 1, when, with the armies of France, the finest troops in the world, the British went over their parapets on the 16-mile Some front. When the winter hardens the water-covered fields of northern France, we will undoubtedly hear some more news from that front, when the 'big push' starts again and restores Belgium and the northern provinces to their rightful owners...
...English literature in the most attractive editions. He will be furnished with books of immediate interest in the growing collection of writings on the war by Harvard men. On the whole the room will prove a great temptation to those who turn naturally to books during the lazy winter months...
Just as in the fall and spring, when many are using the gymnasium, hundreds of others prefer the tennis courts, so in winter, although the gymnasium is then less unobjectionable, cost of us favor the open air. There is something a bit unpleasant in the cold still air of the gymnasium. Out of door exercise is vastly more alluring and invigorating...
Rightly timed and kept within bounds winter walking is a good precaution against the ill effects of sedentary life and too much indoor air. --Cleveland Leader...