Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Kendall swimming for Harvard last winter, the Brown and Princeton losses would have been turned into victories and the Yale meet would have been very close...
...been a friend of the authors' as long as he has been a legend of the literary world. They originally created Sheridan Whiteside as a part for Woollcott. He refused to play it because he had to lecture in real life, but he will probably do so this winter on the road...
...these horseless hunters are young, red-blooded suburbanites who find the sport inexpensive outdoor exercise for fall and winter Sundays. Some are middle-aged beaglers-notably the Buckrams' walrusy Hoffman Nickerson (Harvard '11) and his British bride of a year, whose enthusiasm for beagling dates back to her pigtail days...
Jews, left-wingers and some Catholics denounced Father Coughlin and his assertions, but his radio audience began to mount. During the winter, a Gallup poll indicated that he had 4,500,000 steady listeners, 15,000,000 occasional ones. At a Nazi Bund rally in Manhattan, Father Coughlin's name drew as many cheers as Hitler's. By summertime, Coughlinites in the East were organized and articulate enough to plan a parade into the "Jewish-Communist" enemy's territory, Manhattan's Union Square. Father Coughlin called them off. There were indications that he knew...
Starlings have long memories, sometimes tossing off the calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call...