Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be the "Dunster Chimneys". Those chimneys that create our skylne have a greater significance than most people notice. They mean fire-places. There are less than half a dozen rooms in the House without fire-places, despite the never falling central heating system, and about them on long winter evenings the flow of good ale is mixed with the flow of equally good conversation...
Thanks to the genial weather and almost complete lack of snow, the Maintenance Department has saved over $11,000 this winter, Rogers B. Johnson '17, Superintendent of the Department, admitted yesterday. Whereas the University grounds received $8,000 worth of brushing, snow-shoveling, plowing, and sanding last winter, only $650 has been necessary this winter...
...based on petty graft and favoritism in the back wards. If honest municipal administration does as much for the poor in housing and recreation and health and crime prevention, the poor are not tempted to give their vote to the man who brings a sack of coal in winter and a peddling license in summer. A possible alternative way to knock out the machines is to adopt the city-manager system which, well-organized, allows few chances for corruption. Perhaps Curley's revival may be a fortunate event for good government in Boston, for it focuses all eyes...
...standings of the Houses in the competition for the Straus Trophy are given below, including all fall and winter sports. It should be noticed that under the point system used, the disastrous effect of defaults is emphasized by deducting them from the points for final standings. Thus, as far as the final standings go, Dudley, Leverett and Dunster are tied, but because of different number of defaults, their total points are different. House Points for Final Stand. Deduction for Defaults Total Pts. Kirkland 655 20 635 Lowell 642 1/2 14 628 1/2 Eliot 632 1/2 14 618 1/2 Adams...
...Babson also winters in Florida, where, in addition to his southern Babson Park, he owns a 12,000-acre ranch. There a fortnight ago he wound up his annual winter business conference, which is a small edition of the conference he holds at Babson Park, Mass. in the autumn. It was at the 1929 autumn conference that he uttered his last warning about the impending stockmarket crash. Even Mr. Babson admits that he started calling the tragic turn several years before anything happened...