Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumours which have been current throughout the winter were brought to a head yesterday afternoon, when Representative Hagan, speaking in the Massachusetts legislature, linked the nefarious interests of the Power Trust with the Harvard Business School. Hagan demanded a sweeping investigation into the activities of these companies with special emphasis upon their attempt to "invade the sacred portals of Harvard" in the exercise of their influence...
...backward glance at the Winter Season just closed in Buenos Aires reveals that the outstanding event was not the Hoover visit (TIME, Dec. 24), but the sudden and epochal decision of paunchy, prosperous Argentine males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands...
...form, and the invention of new forms rather than reliance on archaeology. Colorists now apply a vivid spectrum to polychrome decoration and colored tiles. Aviation architecture proved a feature instead of a novelty. The New York Times displayed a plaster model of Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's winter headquarters in Antarctica, with four T-shaped landing and take-off platforms, three skeleton wireless masts, a group of gabled buildings. From famed Naval Architect Henry J. Gielow came designs of the Armstrong Seadrome, a floating platform intended to be anchored far at sea, first between Manhattan and Bermuda, later perhaps...
...other subjects, there will be an open forum on the House Plan, following speeches on the question by President Lowell, Professors Coolidge and Greenough, and possibly one of the architects for the Plan. The problem of increased accommodations for the Yale-Harvard football games, which has been discussed this winter in alumni circles, will also be approached...
...PATHWAY-Henry Williamson- Dutton ($2.50). After the War, William Maddison crept back to his native Devon, to the burrows, the sandhills, the rising and ebbing tides, to starry nights in winter, to summer nights of mad lightning and serene moonlight. At the Manor of Wildernesse he still found Mary, "grave and beautiful and innocent," who loved small birds and high winds as he did himself...