Word: winter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peaceful winter in the soft coal patches df Illinois was assured last September when the operators agreed to maintain the much-disputed Jacksonville wage scale ($7.50 per day) until April. But an unsettled spring, a dubious summer were provided for last week when, meeting in Chicago, the Illinois miners and operators wound up further negotiations unagreed...
Stunt fliers, automobile racers, pearl divers, bull fighters risk wicked wounds in the exercise of their bodies for gold. Not so fisticuffers, footballers, baseball players, golf champions who make most of the money. This winter, however, has seen a shift in money values which brings one sport at least nearer a financial level with its vicious risks. Professional hockey players are being bartered for many thousands, receiving presumably increasingly fat dividends for their efforts. One rumor floats about that the Montreal Canadians hold Howie Morenz, greatest of all hockey players...
...hurried to the hockey rink and busily shooed off the snow. Spectators attended to snowflakes that had sifted down their necks. Two hockey teams in snug tights and jerseys warmed up and stood tense for the face-off. The puck was thrown in and the Olympic games of 1928, winter sports section at St. Moritz, Switzerland, comprising skating, skiing, bob-sleighing, hockey, were declared in progress...
...compact and mutually loyal little body is the Headmasters' Association of the United States. It meets every winter, often at some college. Last week it forgathered with President John Grier Hibben of Princeton...
Coach Martin was head track mentor for one year. While both his winter and spring seasons were disastrous as far as winning meets were concerned, he and his assistant, Coach Farrell, were starting at the bottom and working up. They stuck to the policy of past authorities, but laid even greater emphasis on teamwork...