Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finds a Russian who seems to know. Ambassador Davies did not have to make this senseless detour, was routed direct. En route he dictated his impressions for transmission later to the State Department, cracked jokes and told Washington yarns in the vein of his good friend Jim Farley. Every winter since anyone can remember the Five-Year Plans, it has happened at Rostov that "snow is delaying car loadings." Last week there was about an inch of snow on the ground and sure enough car loadings were delayed, with costly Soviet farm machinery deteriorating in the open just after being...
Everyone was aware by last week that the U. S. had had a freakish winter. Easterners had warm, muggy weather with almost no snow. The greatest floods on record poured down the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. California orange-growers were hit by a cold snap such as they had not known for years. Dr. Krick bobbed up with a pat explanation for these phenomena. This 31-year-old meteorologist, who was a stockbroker's assistant and once a piano accompanist, predicted last September that Southern California was in for a cold, wet winter. He believes that, although the boundaries...
Saint Lydwina of Holland, when a sickly virgin of 15, was persuaded in the winter of 1395 to rise from her sickbed and go skating upon the ice. No sooner had she ventured out on her runners than a rude young woman crashed into her, knocked her flat and broke her rib. "With unimaginable wailing of virgins," St. Lydwina was carried back to bed where she remained for the next 38 years in constant agony, relieved only by angelic visions...
...game is the idea that Batsman Bradman is merely the Babe Ruth of Australia. A discussion about how close to the batsman's body it is sporting for a fast bowler to pitch his ball strained British political relations with Australia in 1933. When King Edward abdicated last winter the consternation in Australia was no greater than that which would have prevailed last week had Braddles been "bowled for a duck egg" (put out with no runs). For Braddles to abdicate would simply be unthinkable. A cricket prodigy, Braddles, now 28, was born in Cootamundra, New South Wales, left...
...long fortnight of dog-running, it was the only reminder they had of heroic Brookfield Dumb-Bell. Thirty-nine of the nation's best bird dogs, one of the biggest entry lists in years, performed in colorless fashion. Experts blamed the poor showing partly on the weather-late winter snow and sleet alternating with blustery spring winds-but also on the seldom-mentioned fact that the Ames Plantation is no longer precisely overrun with quail...