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Word: wintered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years, has been in the diplomatic service since 1902. He was five years Minister to Chile (1909-1914). From 1916 to 1920 he was Ambassador to Mexico. He was Under-Secretary of State during the first year of the Harding administration, then went to Belgium, then to Italy. Last winter, President Coolidge called him home, as Harding did in 1923, to attend the Pan-American Congress. In addition to all this experience, Mr. Fletcher has learned about Latin-America from his three brothers, who own large mines in Nicaragua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Kwong '29, who was to coach the Chinese team, has been forced to leave College because of bad health. Although no date is yet set for the event, it is expected that Mount Holyoke College will send a team to debate a group of Harvard speakers sometime during the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE DEBATES PLANNED FOR HARVARD ORATORS | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...first competition for winter sports managers will start next week, when the candidates for second assistant hockey manager meet in the H. A. A., at 1.30 O'clock on Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Managerial Competition Opens | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

...manager. Because Bostonian baseball fans were annoyed at this and because Rogers Hornsby demanded $50.000 yearly, Judge Fuchs sold him. Hornsby likes to bet on horse races; he is imperious and impudent and in Chicago he will be neither captain nor manager but merely second baseman. Next winter again there may be hornswoggling for Hornsby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Traded Hornsby | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...down at the pigeons strutting, the sparrows hopping on Cleveland's Public Square. They pecked away at crumbs, peanuts, popcorn. The hawk turned his head away. He darted it down at what one of his claws held, a strange bird killed at the tower while migrating southward for winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird-Killing Tower | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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