Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save this exclusive German property Das Schwarze Korps also came out against those Nazis who wish to displace Christmas with a pagan winter festival and to substitute Balder for Christ. Balder, God of Light in Norse mythology, was invulnerable to everything except mistletoe. The God of Evil, Loki, Balder's enemy, found out his secret, persuaded the blind god Hoder to kill Balder by throwing a sprig of mistletoe...
Cincinnati schools closed nine days early for a two-and-one-half-week vacation, this year have been in session only 160 days, 40 days less than normal. Nine-and-one-half days were lost during last winter's flood. Reason for the rest of the school loss in Ohio's best-run city is a State constitutional amendment, wangled by real-estate men and farmers in 1934, fixing a 10-mills realty tax ceiling. To balance its budget for normal school activities, Cincinnati's Board of Education last fall had to submit a special tax levy...
...Matter With Us Now?; Stanley High in Boston, Where Do We Go From Here?; and Vicki Baum in Salt Lake City, Why Be Afraid? The week when all this takes place will be exceptional but not unique for its lecturing activity. A banner season for lectures, the winter of 1937-38 will see about 200 authors giving 10,000 lectures to audiences of approximately 2,000,000 listeners-not counting the performances of magicians, mimes, dancers, mystics, chalk-talk artists and world travelers who still do business with lantern slides...
Bernard mortuary, full during the winter of victims of accidents, to be identified and claimed by their relatives in the spring. The remainder of the solemn, slow-moving picture was filmed in the French monastery of La Trappe, to enter which Director Alexandre needed to employ as much wire-pulling and salesman ship as he did in making Cloistered. The Trappist monks, one of the strictest of Catholic orders, speak to one another only by signs, and permitted Director Alexandre no special staging, no retakes. A much better job of photography, the Trappist sequence of Monastery is more sombre than...
Before a capacity audience, the Varsity basketball team in its first year as a major sport conclusively proved yesterday evening that they will be serious contenders for the Ivy League championship this winter...