Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gathered last week in Mrs. Robertson's Shady Lawn Tourist Camp outside of Nashville, Tenn. was one of the South's most talkative, most anachronistic minority groups-500 itinerant Irish horse traders, the Rileys and Costellos, the O'Haras, Carrolls and Sherlocks. During the winter they travel round from one mule market to another, running down the animals of other people and commenting enthusiastically on the good points of their own. During the summer they live in tourist camps and see the world. Once a year, on May 1. they get together just outside of Nashville...
Typical is the case of S. K. Timoshenko, Second-Rank Red Army Commander (Major General). Last summer he was Assistant Commander at Kiev of the Ukraine Military District in western Russia, adjoining Poland. In the autumn he was appointed Commander in the Caucasus in Russia's south. By winter he was shunted to Kharkov, the industrial centre of the Ukraine, and today he is back at Kiev, now as full Commander-four shifts in less than a year, and at each shift but one Timoshenko has replaced a Red Army officer who was "purged...
Zoogoers, like circusgoers, are not so much interested in seeing animals as in seeing animals act. Two years ago some 2,250,000 people flocked to the St. Louis Zoological Park, famed for its animal stunts, to watch two chimpanzees do battle in a boxing ring. This winter St. Louis trainers worked arduously on a new act which they hope will supplant the now-retired fighting apes...
...eels may furnish a clue for electric anesthesia that might be better than the chemical anesthesia now in use. Ingenious Ichthyologist Coates has already found a practical use for these fantastic fish. For years the Manhattan Aquarium was chivied by large river rats that invaded it during the winter. The rats would climb to the top of tanks, snatch fish out, eat them. Dr. Coates bought a few cats, but they preferred fishing too. Thereupon Coates opened the electric eel tank, turned the fish loose on the floor to play with the cats. The latter promptly pawed the eels, were...
...from the classes of '39, '40 and '41 expressed their desire to take part in the debates next winter as the result of a questionnaire placed in the Union, all the Houses, and Apley, Claverley, and Dudley Halls. The number from each class was almost equal, while each House averaged about 15 men, except for Dunster, which trailed with only seven enthusiasts...