Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of Siraus Trophy competition the Mastodons of Eliot stacked up enough points to carry off the winter championship. The win in hockey, fourth place in the basketball, and a clean sweep for both A and B squash teams, gave them a big bulge over the opponents...
...Phillips Brooks House is concerned, Harvard-Yale winter sports rivalries reach a climax this weekend, when two teams of boys recruited by the Yale Christian Association from New Haven Settlement Houses meet similar aggregations representing Boston Settlements...
...Massachusetts Senators, Lodge and Saltonstall, have been among the Seaway's most vociferous opponents. Lodge held that the 27-foot channel wouldn't be deep enough to allow passage for more than a small percentage of U.S. ships. He pointed out that the river was frozen over in the winter anyhow. Casting suspicion on the cost estimates in general, Lodge compared the planning to "a man running across the country like a house afire with his shirt tail out." Saltonstall felt that provisions to give New York control of power facilities were bad for the surrounding states. "New York will...
...associate editor of Harper's, Best-selling Novelist Merle Miller (That Winter) waxed indignant at a rival, Bestseller Truman Capote (Other Voices, Other Rooms). At a Manhattan forum on publishers' methods, Miller took pained exception to a ripely precious publicity photograph (TIME, Jan. 26) of a pensive, reclining Capote peering up through artfully disarranged bangs. If the idea of printing that particular photograph was Capote's, Miller fumed, it was "deplorable"; if his publisher's, "disgraceful...
...almost forgotten phrase sounded loudly again last week. It was "seasonal decline." In Akron the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. cut production 30%, and other tire companies followed suit. It was the "normal" winter slump which, before the war, was common to the industry. But it was the first time it had happened since the war. Said Goodyear: ". . . The big postwar demand has been filled...