Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bundling. The winters about Cape Cod are cold and the evenings, in the epoch before the mightiest minds were turned to providing parlor entertainment, long and uninteresting. Young sparks also were compelled to walk the long miles that lay between their cottages and those of their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter...
Back from the warmth and flowers of Hawaii where many a U. S. businessman takes winter's rest, John North Willys, of Toledo, last week: 1) reduced the prices of all Willys-Knight Standard Six models by $150; 2) hired every man who applied for factory work in order to reach a required production of 2,000 cars daily; 3) received reports from salesmen that they had sold 30,000 cars during March; 4) notified Willys-Overland stockholders that their net income last year had been $6,341,519, the equivalent of $2.04 on each company share...
...other water is an enormous shallow bay, spread like a thin shield across the North of Canada. Into this grey harbor also Hudson sailed; and here, after spending a winter on its frozen shore, he stayed to watch his ship, manned by a mutiny, putting back for England, leaving him and two companions to drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching...
...Melrose A. C. indoor meet this winter Maryland nosed out the University one-mile relay team. Coach Farrell will make the winning of this event next Saturday a special objective. All the men will be given a stiff workout twice a day, as the main purpose of the trip is to get them into condition as quickly as possible...
...Weekes '31 won first place in the javelin throw in the University handicap track meet, one of two events remaining incompleted from the fall and winter handicap meets. His distance including handicap was 198 feet J. L. McNamara '31 was second with 185 feet, and F. L. W. Richardson placed third with a heave of 183 feet...