Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That, at Lafayette, Ind. last week, was the crucial moment of the most exciting game of the liveliest week in the country's major intercollegiate winter sport. On the sidelines, Purdue's Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert, who puts a stick of chewing gum into his mouth whenever he is perturbed about his team, gnawed a wad the size of a golf ball. In their seats around the court, 5,500 wildly excited spectators watched the players go to their positions for the tip off. In the next few seconds, things happened almost too quickly for the crowd...
Featured by the attempt of the Varsity hockey team to complete a clean sweep of its Yale series, next Saturday will see the winter sports season approaching its conclusion; for only on the following weekend, that of March 13, will any further indoor sports be held in Cambridge...
Today is the first of the several end-of-the winter Saturday's in which Harvard atheistic teams tackle the Elis; the basketball and hockey teams have gone to New Haven to do their best to disrupt the equilibrium of the Bulldog's joyful Prom weekend, while here in Cambridge the Squash team will vie with the Elis, and the track team will run, throw or jump against them along with Cornell and Dartmouth...
...less quickly than this winter's snows have the charges of "Fascism" at Columbia's Teachers' College melted with yesterday's announcement that Professor Kilpatrick will give the Macy Lectures in 1938 and 1939. For a while the enforcing of the retirment law looked like a gag upon the liberal and controversial teacher. He does not think that his throat is being cut, nonetheless, and the report of his new position verifies the friendly words of Dean Russell before the New Orleans Convention...
...shot put big George Downing leads the field with heaves consistently over 52 feet. Captain of Exeter's track team last year he is pushing the shot out two feet further this year than ever before. He, too, broke Andover, Exeter, and Harvard Freshman records this winter. Witness his superior performance of 53 ft., 6 in. in the Exeter meet of January 13. Nat Heard, out of both meets with pneumonia, promises to be a close runner-up to Downing...