Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the airplane disasters in the winters of 1936-38 were attributable to weather. So last fall the operators pulled up their socks and determined to lick this factor in 1938-39. They did. During the 1938-39 winter, not a single airliner crashed because of weather. But other troubles reared their ugly heads. Two of the three crashes of the past five months, it was officially revealed last week, were due to mechanical failure. The third was United's West Coast mishap, due to egregious pilot error (TIME, March...
...inside track to a job in the Metropolitan Opera Company used to turn on an Italianized name and recognized vocal experience, usually in Milan. The modern and more democratic way of crashing grand opera is via the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air, a competition sponsored each winter since 1935 by The Sherwin-Williams Co., paint makers, over the NBC-Blue network Sunday afternoons...
...cities, usually in clubs and hotels, but often in Y. M. C. A. and lodge buildings. Favorite short-order exercise for the not too tired business man, a half-hour of squash racquets, which everybody calls squash, is equivalent to three times as much straight lawn tennis. Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active man. It has recently attracted many women players. Most notable: British Margot Lumb, who beat Tennist Helen Jacobs last fall in the women's tennis at Forest Hills...
Despite the fact that the three Harvard major sports teams experienced rather unsuccessful winter campaigns on the whole final figures indicate that seven winter sports squads have compiled a record of 50 wins against 41 defeats for a .549 rating for the season's activities...
Lowell's record is also characterized by consistency, for the Bellboys have a long string of seconds, thirds, and fourths to their credit. An interesting feature of the 1938-39 fall and winter House athletics is that the total number of points lost by defaults has shrunken appreciably from last year's figures. So far, 79 points have been lost by defaults as against 168 thus far in the 1937-38 season...