Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prodigal Son. In the winter of 1926, when the Carnegie Foundation sent an expedition to cooperate with the Mexican Government in exploration and restoration of Chichén-Itzà, greatest Maya city in Yucatan, U. S. archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight...
Most communicable of all contagious diseases is measles. It spreads much faster than its nearest morbid rivals, smallpox and influenza. And it infects practically every person exposed to it, unless he has been immunized by an attack of the disease. In this country next winter and spring some 800,000 people, chiefly children, will catch measles. Only a few will die, and those the victims chiefly of broncho-pneumonia which often accompanies a measles attack. But many will suffer the rest of their lives from poor hearing which measles often initiates...
...Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest, taught in a night school where he got the idea for the twisted-tongue Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n which he wrote to pay the costs of his wife's illness in the winter...
...Unless there is a heavy rain or a steady drizzle. The weather bureau predicts a perfect football day, but a scoreless tie will result in a winter of discontent...
...expected that all Freshman crew prospects who are not wizards at some other type of winter sport will stick to this less spectacular indoor rowing until spring once more opens the Charles River to their activities. From now on the tank is open...