Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the quiet, ever-grey want-ad columns of the London Times rang a challenging voice last week. It called for "well-educated young men who are willing to take off their coats and learn an exciting trade. Work arduous, filthy; you will be frozen to death in winter and roasted in summer. But the pay is good, and those who make the grade will have a job for life, with every opportunity to climb to a good position. . . . There is no reason why we can't have men who talk like Socrates and work like Hercules...
...invades the six million square miles of the Arctic Circle, he soon leaves the great timberlands behind and enters a region where the last, sparse outposts of birch, spruce and cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia is sold...
...lack of self help has been shown, however, with students in some European areas mining coal for winter fuel after study hours...
...With the winter sports schedules now a closed affair, letter winners of three Varsity teams elected captains for 1948-49 and had their pictures taken for posterity yesterday. Jeremy W. Gorman '49 of Kirkland House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, was chosen swimming captain, Daniel B. Ray '49 of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, N. Y., was picked as wrestling captain, and John W. Ager, Jr. '49 of Kirkland House and Birmingham, Alabama, was elected to lead the fencers. James J. Tracy '50 of Eliot House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, was appointed swimming manager...
Gorman, who took the Eastern Intercollegiate 440-yard swim in 1947, has won his letter for the past two years and was one of the leading point makers on Hal Ulen's squad this winter. A prop school star and captain at the Shaker Heights High School, Gorman, who swam 220's this year until the E.LL meet last week, left College in the middle of the 1946 season to serve in the Navy. Last week he took third in the Eastern 440 championships...