Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...
There was many another clue. A battered Studebaker car with a Massachusetts license had been seen near Pach's studio. Teasing telegrams arrived at the office of the Yale Daily News. A message from Winter Park, Fla., said that the Fence was being nibbled by alligators. From Niagara Falls came word that the relic had been seen tumbling over the cataract. In Chicago someone was holding "the third rail of the Fence." Other telegrams came from Seattle, Poughkeepsie, Cambridge, Mass. All were signed "Algernon Gustavson...
This afternoon the University and Freshman track teams will start practice for the winter season, which is culminated in the Harvard-Dartmouth Cornell triangular meet at the Boston Garden, and the annual Intercollegiate meet...
...winter competition is the shortest of the three try-outs held yearly by the CRIMSON. It has an added advantage in that it is broken by the Christmas vacation...
With the holiday and Saturday football games written into the books, the fall season may definitely be said to be over. Post mortems, various all-teams, and preparations for the next gridiron campaign will occupy alike fans, scribes, and coaching staffs for the coming month or so until winter sports get past the stage of warming...