Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual winter track meet, which will take the place this year of the Winter Carnival, will start on Monday and extend during the three following days according to plans announced yesterday by the management. The meet is not only open to all members of the College, but also for those in the various schools in the University...
...Monday afternoon, the first events of the winter handicap track meet for all members of the University will be held. Extending over a three-day period, this all-University contest will take the place of the Winter Carnival which has heretofore proven very popular...
...definite races outside the college. The attendant preparation for these races has always entailed practically eight months of continuous training. Whatever feeling of drudgery may have risen in the past has been counteracted this year by breaking up the long season into a fall and spring season, the winter season--this being spent in whatever form of athletics the individual selected for himself. The squash tournament open to all members of the squad was recently won by W. G. Saltonstall...
Burly of stature but impeccably sleek, the Earl of Birkenhead vacationed last week at Funchal, balmy and (in winter) fashionable port-city of Madeira. Careless of his dignity as Secretary of State for India and a onetime (1919-22) Lord Chancellor, the Earl rode about by day in a canopied sled drawn by bullocks-the peculiar means of transport on this Portuguese isle. At eve, Lord Birkenhead dined, naturally at one of the great hotels-the same in which George Bernard Shaw stopped when he visited Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango...
...Egyptians, as their ancient reliefs attest, valued the brave and loyal, but somewhat obstinate dachshund.* Last week, near Semmering, famed Austrian winter sports centre, Printz, the pet dachshund of Count Bela Széchényi, upheld the tradition of his breed...