Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alex Northrop's health is a constant heckler to Jaakko, for during the last year there has always been something to jeopardize his possibilities. In the winter it was bronchitis which left him in poor condition for the mile on a board track, and in the spring just as he was getting in good shape, he came down with a case of the measles. Nevertheless in the spring Yale meet he won the half-mile in the excellent time of 1:55.4. And what may prove to be the climax of his dogged career was his mile performance...
Down at Brown nestled--in the foot-hills of Providence the famine in foot-ball victories has been of equal intensity and greater duration than it has up among us city folks in Cambridge. And on long winter nights the alumnie wolves can be heard starting their long quavering howls as they thirst for the blood of one Mr. Tuss McLaughry, coach for some time now at the Providence institution...
...cold and grey to him as he crossed over the bridge to Fairhaven and pulled through winding slum streets to the yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making repairs before going out onto winter waters, while many a boat that he knew under clouds of white canvas he hardly recognized as they lay all bare of rigging, nestled together in cradles under a tin shed, as if in hibernation...
...high mountains surrounding Gijón on the Bay of Biscay winter had already come last week. Rightist troops shivered along mountainous paths slippery with seven inches of snow, fought every inch of the way by indomitable but ill-equipped Asturian miners who heartily cheered the snow that bogged down their enemies' tanks and heavy artillery, grounded their planes. Rightist capture of Gijón seemed in expert military eyes inevitable, but if snow and bad weather continued that capture might be postponed for many weeks, possibly till spring. The slated siege of Gijón would likewise...
...blight touched a tithe of the crop with the first dapplings of disaster. The damage was small that year, but it was enough to make the Kilmartins draw in their belts a little. Potatoes (dug fresh from the ground in summer, stored in fern-lined earthen pits through the winter; served boiled, with a bowlful of salt water to dip them in, for flavor) were their only food...