Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be interesting, I am sure, to most of the winter residents as well as to the 350,000 summer residents of Wildwood, to know what prompted you to describe Wildwood as "a hardened little resort town and fishing port between Atlantic City and Cape May," in your article of May 17 on our "Extraordinary Mayor." Just what constitutes "a hardened town?" 1 will gladly admit there is nothing Puritanical about Wildwood, and it is quite frankly a resort city. But that does not mean we are hardened. The resort attracts a very good class of people from all sections...
...Senate he sent eight treaties, conventions and protocols drafted at the Inter-American Conference last winter in Buenos Aires. From a treaty for the preservation of peace to a convention to facilitate the holding of international art exhibitions, he strongly recommended them all for ratification...
...October overruled the New Deal on a single major case. Instead, it upheld in the past year: the arms embargo in the Chaco War, the new Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act, the Railway Labor Act, the Wagner Labor Law, the Social Security Law. Yet it was not until this winter that the President demanded that it be changed. A valedictory upon this historic Court was pronounced last week by a Washington wag who asked...
...world hailed this as a great triumph of French civilization. The Tuaregs settled down, but for two years practically no rain fell. This winter the rain failed again. The goats and cattle died, the wells dried up, the date palms withered. The 240,000 Blue People were starving to death and with them 1,300,000 neighboring Berbers. As many as 200,000 actually died. Folding their tents, loading their mangy camels, 1,000,000 of them started a grim, slow march north toward the Atlas and the more fertile lands beyond...
...calling at the Information Office in University Hall. In making this announcement, University officials emphasized that Harvard is not offering an additional course of study, either to students or the public, and no registration is required. Supplementing the reading list, the University will arrange public lectures for next winter summarizing certain aspects of American history...