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Word: winter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary winter the District of Columbia has little snow, but snow had just fallen heavily in Washington. Gesturing dramatically toward the snow on the White House lawn, the President asked Mr. Adams how he had the heart to turn a million jobless men off into a desolation like that. It was a tough question to any man, a tougher question to ask a politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Snow on the Lawn | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...first time. From Norway to defend her itle came dimpled 17-year-old Champion Sonja Henie, who gave an exhibition oi kating in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the likes of which New Yorkers had never seen. In 1932 she came again-for the Winter Olympic Games-and regained for a series of charity ice carnival n a dozen U. S. cities. Every pig-ta led girl who saw her swirling in a fairy-like froth of marabou dreamed that some day she might skate like Sonja Henie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fine Figures | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...satisfactory in modern high-compression engines; 2) conserve U. S. oil reserves by yielding more gasoline per barrel of crude; 3) help stabilize prices by stabilizing stocks, now badly unbalanced because gasoline and fuel oil must be produced simultaneously though one is most used in summer, the other in winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Pharmacist to Catalyst | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

WEST OSSIPEE, N. H. (U.P.) New England winter sports fans will have facilities comparable to the famous Alpine centers upon completion of a project on Mount Nickerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alpine Ski Lodge Planned in New Hampshire With Tram | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

...Captain Bob Haydock, '39, twelve members of the Varsity track team will make their winter debut in the K. of C. Meet tomorrow night. The Crimson contingent is not expected to do more than place one or two men in a field which includes such star performers as Glenn Cunningham, Dave Albritton and Alan Tolmich, but as Coach Mikkola puts it: "Upsets can happen anytime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Harvard Track Men To Compete in K. C. Games | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

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