Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned paper read before the American Astronomical Society in a cosy Columbia University lecture hall, Meteorologist Edgar William Woolard of the U. S. Weather Bureau explained last week that lowest annual temperatures ordinarily occur in the U. S. in the period from ten to 40 days after the winter solstice (Dec. 21 or 22, day when the sun is farthest south of the Equator). From Montana to Maine and as far south as Memphis and Macon, U. S. inhabitants could well believe him. In two waves real winter cold rolled down on them from Alaska and the Canadian Northwest...
Last week the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its winter convention in Richmond, Va. With an attendance of 7,000 and 1,800 papers to be presented, the multiple preoccupations of science had to share the spotlight. On hand to see that the pituitary got its share of attention, however, was a pituitary master: Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island...
Outmoded is the fashion here, but Harvard also was young once. Not within the memory of the present generation, of course, but the Oldest Inhabitant can tell you about a real winter disturbance, how some gay, young blades pulled the horses out of horse-cars shortly after the Depression...
...China, which is stimulating Britain and France to grant similar loans; he might have cited the shipment of 600,000 barrels of American wheat to Spain" on the basis of need"--where need is principally Loyalist--and which has enabled that army to avoid surrender this winter. Peaceful methods such as these keep military force in the background, make it, literally and theoretically, a last resort...
Christmas in pastoral Bessarabia is visiting time. This Christmas a bitter, blizzardy Rumanian winter swept down off the Carpathians but the quaint railway cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas...