Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other well-known books by Harvard men which have appeared this winter are "The Theatre of George Jean Nathan" by Isaaac Goldberg '10, "Why Call it Anything?" by R.C. Benchley '12, and "Lord of Himself", a novel by Percy Marks, A.M. '14. J.R. Dos Jassos '16 has also contributed to the number of novels with his "Orient Express...
...throughout the U. S. and England, is a craze- questions and answers. This is being applied by the International Advertising Association with the purpose of finding out what various groups of people believe about religion. Last week, 1,000 hearty Dartmouth College undergraduates, who brave the Hanover (N. H.) winter with the aid of supplies from Canada, answered the following questionnaire in the following manner...
...eastward from the storm-drenched purlieus of Los Angeles they go ? 500 leather-cheeked, great-knuckled athletes, members of the 16 "big" league teams, presumably the best baseball players in the world. For two months they have been practising; playing exhibition games under the languid unimportant gaze of winter traveler and native, under the sharply appraising eye of owner, manager, scribe. Then northward, eastward they go for careful records show that after April 11 meteorological conditions from Boston to Chicago will permit professional baseball to operate at a profit on summer playgrounds. On April 12, brass gongs will resound...
...season prognosticators, whose predictions are generally soon forgotten by all but themselves, have been especially active this spring. During no previous winter have rosters of the big teams undergone such sweeping changes in personnel. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, fiery outfielder, has joined the Philadelphia American League club, after 22 consecutive years in a Detroit uniform; Edward Trowbridge Collins, ancient, honorable second baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade...
...close of a concert season is an emotional time for the faithful who have listened all winter. When the fast note has fallen away, shouts rise above the handclapping. The conductor becomes an object of overt adoration, especially if he has won the heart of his audience only recently. So it was last week in Carnegie Hall, at the end of Guest Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's third season with the New York Philharmonic. In 1925 he first came as guest conductor, a studious young man from Berlin and Vienna who had pleased without enchanting. Last year...