Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman winter track schedule is scarcely under way before it is all over, but already reports are being confirmed that this year's is the best in many. With Exeter and Andover, the only two meets of the season, under their spikes, the Freshmen have already two new records to their credit with two other former records equaled...
There will be a mid-winter dance in Eliot House on Friday, March 12. Robert C. Holcombe '37 is in charge of the dance, which will be preceded as usual by a dinner in the House Dining Hall...
...were higher than the laundry bills of Y. M. C. A. workers in Philadelphia and Boston. Property owners refused to paint their buildings or paper walls because smoke begrimed those coatings too quickly. Merchants had to keep their store windows lighted, motorists to use their headlights until noon on winter days. The estimates of what these man-made handicaps to living in St. Louis cost ran into fantastic millions...
...were the estimates of completely altering St. Louis' methods of burning fuel. Realtor Dickmann, who wants to be re-elected mayor during Passover, put his ear to the Lenten ground, telegraphed "my kindest regards" to Illinois' Governor Henry Horner and last week signed the ordinance which next winter may make St. Louis cleaner than Pittsburgh...
...Egypt even the seasons (flood, winter, summer) are the Nile's doing. And Egypt's whole civilization-and consequently the world's-is the result, says Ludwig, of the river's perennial lessons. "The calculation of the height of the flood produced the measurement of height, the marking out of single fields with boundaries that were washed away every year gave rise to square measure, to the protection of property and the settlement of boundary disputes. It was the Nile that created mathematics, law and equity, money and politics, long before any other association of people...