Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the Dean's office there is constant contact with the hundreds of schools that annually send men here for their Freshman year. This winter Dean Gummere is visiting some of these schools in the South and Middle West, interviewing prospective candidates. While a student is here, the Records office sends back reports on his progress. In this way Harvard standards are carried to the schools, influence those schools...
...Pearl findings were reported at length by Associated Press last winter: in TIME, March 7, under Medicine...
Since many record fish have been landed off the southeast coast of Florida, Miami is headquarters for winter anglers. Last week, with bands blaring and airplanes circling overhead, a mile-long flotilla of fishing boats, five abreast, paraded out of Biscayne Bay. It was the opening of the 99-day Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament and 2,000 deep-sea anglers, who for weeks had been dreaming of sailfish dancing on their tails, were off for the Gulf Stream four miles away to try their luck, skill, and endurance...
Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, Van Doren is well known as a poet, critic, and editor. He has written studies of Thoreau, Dryden, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. His own books of verse include: "Spring Thunder," "7 P. M.," "Now the Sky," 'A Winter Diary," "The Last Look," and others. He is editor of the "Oxford Book of American Prose," "American Poets 1930-1930," "An Autobiography of America," and "An Anthology of World Poetry...
...trucking strike has come and gone, and now it seems likely that no more than the usual number of people will starve this winter. But even at the height of the teamster troubles, no breath of famine touched the Copley-Plaza Hotel. Daily its massive menu continued to run the gamut of epicurcan delights. With this fact in mind, a Harvard Sophomore recently took a visiting aunt to dinner there...