Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Ford can alter wages and prices at will, Franklin Roosevelt cannot. This made the President's whole statement rather iffy. Iffiest fact of it was his concluding sentiment: "If industries reduce wages this winter and spring they will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying-they will be fostering a downward spiral, and they will make it necessary for their Government to consider other means of creating purchasing power." The phrase "other means of creating purchasing power" could mean only one thing-spending. Realists in Washington felt morally sure last week that unless business picked...
Last U. S. team to journey to the Antipodes was headed by Ellsworth Vines. That was in the winter of 1932-33 when Vines was champion of England and the U. S. On his return, Champion Vines lost his form, lost his All-England title to Australia's Jack Crawford, lost his U. S. title to England's Fred Perry, finally turned professional. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association prudently stopped sending representatives to barnstorm-below the equator...
Last autumn, before moving his 18 children, 13 grandchildren and divers in-laws from their drought-blighted farmstead in North Dakota to a 19-room house at Columbia Falls, Mont., Antone Hoerner killed & cured enough hogs to make sausages and ham to carry them through the winter. Shortly before Christmas nine well-fed Hoerners simultaneously took sick at their stomachs, vomited, developed fever. Doctors thought that they had eaten apples from which poisonous insecticide had not been thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel...
...Stubbsmen do not resume league competition until a week from Saturday when they play the Big Green at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Princeton plays here the following Wednesday, and then the Crimson journeys to Canada to take on the Queens and Toronto sextets on Friday and Saturday respectively...
...increasing degree of participation by the undergraduate body in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival has reached a point where the facilities for entertainment are used to capacity. This is particularly true at the fraternity houses. With small houses and large membership it is impossible for the Dartmouth fraternities to extend hospitality to unexpected guests or to hold open house for every member's friends at Carnival time...