Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain, diplomats have moved from Burgos, which Spaniards claim is Spain's hottest spot in summer and coldest in winter, to San Sebastián, on the Bay of Biscay, and Generalissimo Franco planned to pass the summer in a new seaside home presented to him by the nation near his birthplace at El Ferrol, in Galicia, recently renamed El Ferrol del Caudillo in his honor...
Special hospitals for Negro victims of T. B. are few and far between. Last winter the Federal Government gave Washington's Howard University for Negroes (Washington, D. C. is the Negro Paris) a WPA grant of $600,000 to build a T. B. clinic and hospital. Heartened by this recognition, scholarly Dr. Numa Pompilius Garfield Adams, dean of Howard's medical school, promptly called a meeting of 50 black and white tuberculosis experts. Last week at Howard he welcomed the delegates to the First Annual Conference of Negro Tuberculosis workers...
...Last winter he planned to sail a Chinese junk across the Pacific to San Francisco and the Fair. Just before he sailed he wrote: "I want to steer her straight into the Golden Gate, where a long time ago I first saw a whitesailed schooner and first heard the call...
...London last winter the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was guided to apply to the Board of Trade for incorporation as a limited company. Reason: it was legally nonexistent, could not collect a ?500 legacy willed to it (TIME, March 20). When the Group's application was made known, wigs hit the green. The Oxford Union, the Oxford Hebdomadal Council and A. P. Herbert, M. P. for Oxford, protested that the Group's use of the name Oxford was misleading. Numerous other M.P.s got into the row, pro and con. Supporters pointed out that...
Even as recently as last April, Vag welcomed spring with a light-hearted allegory. It was all voices on the river. Feminine, always tinkling girlish sounds and sights. Bicycles and boats. Taut canvas that at last could relax and fold down to make open and animate cars of winter-closed vehicles. A moon no longer cold. Grass that responded with an up-surge at each footfall, lightening, replying: move--move faster, move guilty...