Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year the team lost practically all its letter men by graduation, forcing Coach Wachter to build up an entirely new five this winter. This season Captain D. J. O'Connell '29 is the only one to go. Coach Wachter will have two Junior and four Sophomore letter men to work with when the 1929-30 season opens. The other Junior returning besides Wenner is S. C. Burns '30, center, who distinguished himself in the Yale game by scoring 14 points and keeping the Crimson within striking distance of the Blue at all times. The Sophomores who will return...
Huddled close together for warmth in the pews of the village church at Buchau, pious farmer folk heard their beloved pastor explain from the pulpit, last week, why Europe has been visited with the coldest winter of the century...
...poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most inglorious one; indeed, worse than driving geese to water," but at least...
...This winter ingenious promoters devised a way to keep some of the U.S. gold in town for the evening. They withdrew two miles from Tiajuana to a spot called Agua Caliente. Here they built a beautiful hotel and beside it a large and luxurious gambling casino. While the rabble is fleeing for the border from Tiajuana, the lazy rich man is beginning to dress for dinner at Agua Caliente...
During the winter, the activities of the club have been confined to overhauling their ship, a Travel-Air biplane with a Curtis OXX-6 engine, but within the next few days, they plan to start regular operations, with occasional cross-country flights...