Word: winter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City the University track team will encounter the keenest track and field opposition the East can produce when it participates in the seventh annual indoor Intercollegiate championship meet of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America. The present I. C. 4A meet, a stellar feature of the winter season, had its official origin in 1922. when the first meet was held, and at a meeting of the I. G. 4A authorities, it was decided to make the event an annual affair. The initial classic was held in New York City on Saturday, March 11, 1922, and was the first...
Flood Control. Last week, not quite one year after the beginning of the most enormous peacetime calamity in U. S. history, residents of the Mississippi Basin, looking northward, saw millions of acres of snow that would soon melt and incalculable clouds of rain that would soon fall. Winter had come and spring was not far behind. The peace of the public mind was not promoted during the week by an address to the third annual Midwest Power Conference, in Chicago, by Major-General Edgar Jadwin. As Chief of Engineers for the Army, General Jadwin may be expected to know what...
Practical scientists who were able to attend the winter meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Manhattan last week edged forward on their seats when rumpled-haired Dr. William David Coolidge began to explain his further experiments with cathode rays. Dr. Coolidge, assistant director of the General Electric Co.'s research laboratories, had just received the Institute's Edison Medal for his "contributions to the incandescent electric lighting and x-ray arts" by his development of ductile tungsten for bulb filaments and x-ray targets. At the same ceremony John Joseph Carty of the American Telephone...
...since; Washington's men heard the wind capering like a white wolf in the snowy sky and they held out their hands to fires that were colder than the stars. Food was scarce at Valley Forge. The general, his bleak face pinched by the agony of that winter's cold, could promise no comfort. The spring came slowly and the army stayed through a warm June, when trout jumped at twilight in Schuylkill River...
...this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that the cold wind crying at his window was still blowing snowdrifts over an army's fires. In 1903 he outlined the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. That same year, 125 years after Washington's soldiers had marched down the hill...