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Word: wintered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bankrupt. The Provincetown Players, discoverers in 1916 of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, when they gave his Bound East for Cardiff in a shack on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. This winter they moved up from their small Greenwich Village theatre to Broadway. Subscribers' pledges of some $60,000 were not met. Suspected reason: "The stockmarket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...world influenza epidemic was neglected for the theory, best formulated by Simon Flexner and the late great Hideyo Noguchi, that a virus so fine that it seeped through the finest unglazed porcelain was the cause. Dr. Falk went back to the Rosenau indication. When influenza struck Chicago severely last winter, he and his assistants took cultured smears from every throat they could reach. They slept on their desks to avoid losing time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza Germ Found | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...this foundation, the author builds a singularly pungent tale of ship yards, cotillions, the rigours of a mid-winter passage of the Horn, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, the economics of the China Trade--in short, the spirit of those adventuresome times...

Author: By V. O. Jones ., | Title: Invitation to Danger | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...meeting of the wrestling officials and coaches of the colleges of the greater Boston area today gives further expression to a policy which the University has been following in regard to many of the winter term sports. In the interests of general argreement and the prevention of misunderstandings, Harvard has arranged conferences and demonstrations which have been of great advantage in working out a standardized set of rules and regulations for hockey, basketball, and now, wrestling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAPPROCHEMENT | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

Although the roof has been completed, the rest of the structure will not be ready for another month. The dedication of this new rink is to take place on January 8, during the annual Winter Carnival, when the Crimson hockey team faces off against the Indians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH'S NEW HOCKEY RINK TO GUIDE AEROPLANES | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

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