Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this shack, slim, brown-eyed, tangle-bobbed Artist Maclver once spent a winter. But every other winter since she was 16 she has lived in one or another dusty studio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Last week, in her skylit garret on MacDougal Street, wearing leather sandals and paint-splattered slacks, she welcomed more interviewers from the press than she had ever seen in her life, testified to her work at the Art Students' League, told her love for chile concarne and the late French painter Odilon Redon, and recalled that when she sold her first two pictures...
...whose scheme of a mid-term convention was declined, the Committee's sole act to date has been to elect University of Wisconsin's onetime President Glenn Frank chairman. Whether the Committee should be listed as an asset or a liability will presumably remain undecided until next winter when it releases its report-of which, to the party's practical politicians, the only real virtue appears to be the fact that it will not be released until after election...
Several months ago Soviet papers factually reported such a misfortune as Arctic scientists constantly risk in their perilous lives: unpredictably heavy ice at the beginning of the winter of 1937 had trapped an unusually large number of icebreakers in Siberian waters. This has been known for months, but suddenly last week Vice Premier Kosior rushed before the Council of People's Commissars, declared that the early ice was a factor which Professor Schmidt and his scientific colleagues are learned enough to have figured out in advance. The professor was called before the commissars, but what he said was kept...
...color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first sight only a delicately smoky paper with a tangle of lines in the centre, suggested a cosmic twilight and the chaotic, prehistoric figures of monsters. In another kind of shorthand, a gouache called Winter Flowers showed a pattern of slim stems and frosty white blooms against grey darkness. Here all the spectator had to contribute was a simple association of darkness with winter...
...Last winter Secretary Morgenthau was asked whether he would stop subsidizing the Mexican silver mines in retaliation for prohibitive boosts in Mexican tariffs on U. S. goods. The reply: "We don't mix our silver and other matters...