Word: winter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Legation at Peking last summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for the use of cars to move the coal...
...exhibited last winter in Manhattan. Artist Rousseau painted it when his memory gave him a scene that some sentence or story had buried in his mind a long time before, perhaps in his childhood; for the picture of the night, the desert, the beast and the sleeping woman is achieved in accents as intense and dim as the words of a child in a fever. It may be that the word "Bohemian" had taken on, when he first heard it, some quality not its own, a jangling note that suggested the picture, for why the painted traveler, asleep under...
...little moons that circle Mars (the inner one twice daily) and concentrated on the dark-stained areas of its surface which remain fairly constant in their own cycle of changes and seem to indicate the existence of seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time on Mars' earthward hemisphere. The planet's ice cap was almost all melted. The stained areas showed the faint regular lines which some observers have called "canals." Their irregular spread, coupled with measurements of their heat, suggest that the stains are seasonal vegetation...
...they had no passports and were not allowed to land. It was a sad day for the Forecast family when these three miles of humanity had to be thrown overboard. And that almost broke the Forecast line, for poor Prudence could not stand the rigors of the New England winter. The broken-hearted Caution survived harm, however, and realizing his duty to posterity he married an Indian miss named Did-You-Put-Out. That-Camp-fire. And to their first-born son, a direct ancestor of mine, they gave at his mother's insistence, an Indian name. He was called...
...value of acknowledging one's limitations is well illustrated by the program which Dr. Holt, President of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, proposes to follow in governing his institution. Rollins, he admits, is a small college, not a university; and what is more, its future depends on its remaining small. There is a distinct difference between the organization and aims of a college and a university, a difference on which too little emphasis is being said, of the latter America has, says Dr. Holt, too many, of the former not enough...