Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erection of the building, which is to cost slightly over $40,000, was shown to be financially feasible. The project will now be pushed in the hope of having the roof on before winter...
...Chicago's Henry Horner in 1932, has since distinguished himself in Illinois by attempting unsuccessfully to swing the downstate vote away from his former running mate when Governor Horner ran for re-election in 1936. In Washington he has voted consistently for the New Deal, but last winter any hope Franklin Roosevelt might have entertained to reward Mr. Dieterich's loyalty was thwarted. Governor Horner and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly paid separate visits to the White House, each to say that this year he would support not Dieterich but a candidate of his own choice...
...Cuthbert Bazett of the University of Pennsylvania gave an explanation for this seasonal phenomenon. In spring, said Professor Bazett, a human being's blood volume increases by a fifth to a third. He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter. Outside it was sleety & cold; in the room the temperature was 90° during the day, 88° at night. Dr. Bazett's first symptoms were typical of spring fever-laziness, sleepiness, a logy feeling. Then his ankles and feet began to swell. At the end of the first...
Spring engorgement is the result of a gradual heating of the body, said Dr. Bazett. And this heating-up may be considered the basic reason why people with weak brains tend to burst cerebral blood vessels in the spring, why people with weak hearts may collapse just as winter ends, why many who rush south to escape northern winters promptly die there...
Soon after the Nazi majority in the diet election of May, 1932, Bruening was forced to resign by the more extreme conservatives, to be succeeded the next winter by Fritz von Papen, who carried through Hitler's coup d'etat...