Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they were extended for five days, then four days, then three days so it does not lapse until midnight of Dec. 12. All ships leaving port prior to the end of the insurable period are covered to the end of the trip, hence even if locked in ice all winter, they are insured...
...Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave...
...Winter List of books to be published by the University Press was announced yesterday by D. T. Pottinger '06, of the Harvard University Press...
Then after a trail has been cleared it comes right back and begins to grow up again. The clearing lets in more light for the remaining trees, which grow the faster in that direction. Seedlings take root and prosper. Each winter trees fall across the path from two or three to twenty or thirty to the mile according to the severity of the storms and the local conditions; and once or twice in a generation there comes a storm that lays low whole stretches of forest and obliterates miles of trail. Aside from such storms a trail long maintained...
...teams, containing a total of 20 men. Seven towns have been visited during the past two months: East Bridge-water, Concord, Lincoln, Methuen, North Attleboro, Saugus, and Burlington. In view of the increasing demand throughout the state, a large number of men will go on these trips during the winter and spring...