Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this decision the Athletic Association has discontinued the 53-year-old annual Track and Field meet, won by Andover for the last time last Saturday, as well as the Winter swimming meet...
...workers were moved by these erroneous reports, they were influenced much more by self-interest. To kitchen and dining-hall workers, young, rapidly becoming proficient at their jobs, desirous of summer jobs now and better winter jobs later on, the American Federation of Labor had much to offer, whereas membership in an inside union would have proved a drawback. For the other groups, older, on the whole better off, anchored to Cambridge by families and real estate, there was little in and international brotherhood to compensate for its high dues. It is significant, too, that those who most trusted...
...director of the Navy's War Plans Divisions. Captain Royal Ingersoll last winter went to England to exchange data about Naval building with the British Admiralty. At House hearings on the Big Navy Bill, this prompted talk of a secret alliance between England and the U. S. Last week. Franklin Roosevelt upped 54-year-old Captain Ingersoll to a rear admiralty. His job when confirmed by the Senate': command of the Sixth Cruiser Division, at San Pedro...
...Riot and the "beer barrel that walks like a man"-achieved something of a moral victory when he faced Heavyweight Nathan Mann, a fairly well-rated boxer, as a headliner in Madison Square Garden. Suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission last winter because he insisted upon, training on beer and hot dogs in his Orange saloon and doing his road work at the wheel of an automobile, Bartender Galento, whose face is the color of biscuit dough, had been reinstated for no apparent reason three weeks...
...chuckling spectators had time to get accustomed to this primitive technique, one of Galento's punches met Nathan Mann's chin -squarely and effectively, for Galento's fifth successive knockout. It had taken Champion Joe Louis longer (three rounds) to dispose of Nathan Mann last winter...