Word: winter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday evening at 8 o'clock, when the University track team toes the mark in the Knights of Columbus meet at Mechanics Hall, the winter track season will get officially under...
...with Ignaz or Ignace for a first name and Jan or Jean for a second.?But it was Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pronounced correctly Pad-er-rey-ski) who in 1877, a penniless boy of 17, set out on his first concert tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils and a wife who died a year later...
...season. The men are as follows: president, M. M. Johnson '31, vice president, Robert Fielding '30, secretary, R. H. Dorr '29, treasurer, T. H. Dunn '31, executive officer, Nicholas Unkovic 28. At the meeting the club made its plan of activities for the shooting matches to be held this winter...
...Since November. The Texas, commissioned in 1914 and modernized last winter, has been U. S. flagship since July. Like all ships, the Texas has her own history, at least one episode in which has never been officially published. One night during the War (so the sailors' story goes) the Texas was steaming full speed past Long Island. One of the deck officers on watch was a young Naval Reserve officer, in private life a wealthy yachting dilettante. The waters around eastern Long Island were as familiar to him as had been his nursery floor. When he saw Fire Island dead...
Although zealous, Mr. Cosgrave was not immediately conspicuous in a party of zealots. Elected a Deputy of the Dail Eireann, he advanced to cabinet rank in the Provisional Government; but in the spring of 1922 he was still little known to Irishmen. Yet when winter came he was, and is now President of the Irish Free State...