Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kamakovsky spoke eight month's worth of English which he learned last winter by going to the city after an eight and a half hour workday to take a four and a half hour language class. Arriving home between 8 and 9 in the evening, he would begin his "homework" for the factory...
Lorenz described the apartment as relatively well-off and modern. There was a toilet and running water, although no hot water. During the winter, a log heater warms the apartment...
Comstock Hall, Radcliffe's newest dormitory, is a month behind its building schedule, President Wilbur K. Jordan of Radcliffe has disclosed. He indicated that one month of good weather will be necessary to get the dorm under roof before winter sets...
While it is sheer folly to predict a record for a hockey team at this date, it is safe to say that they will do quite a bit of damage in the Ivy League after playing teams like Michigan and Minnesota. It will be a pleasant winter for Watson Rink fans...
...stories in this new collection may be the literary testament of one of the most skilled but least prolific writers of the 20th century. Isak Dinesen is the pen name of Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen, who has produced only four other books (Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa, Winter's Tales, The Angelic Avengers) in her 72 years. She works, for the most part, in the narrow and demanding field of the Gothic story-a romantic form requiring a controlled mixture of the grotesque and the sublime, where plot tragically turns on the concept of honor...