Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz (pop. 2,500) had set up 4,000 extra beds, which would not be nearly enough. For St. Moritz this week is the scene of the fifth winter Olympics, the first since...
Sport fans had their choice of 19 events, in which contestants from 31 nations would risk their necks and their reputations on skates, ski jumps and the perilous Cresta Run toboggan course. The experts were betting on Switzerland to win its first winter Olympics (Norway has won three, the U.S. one). More people would see the ice hockey and figure skating than anything else: a guest could watch them from his hotel balcony, highball in hand...
Placement tests, English A anticipatories, and VA mass meetings, as well as bunk-filled gymnasiums, have abandoned winter registrations, since only three new men have been admitted for the spring term...
...Winter intramural athletics will be back in full swing next week with all Houses resuming play in basketball, hockey, and squash leagues Director Dolph Samborski announced yesterday. In addition, four more sports will see intramural action before the winter season closes...
Last summer Boston suffered some record heat waves, and this winter has already established itself as the peak in many eastern areas...