Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Taft and Alben Barkley, Speaker Joe Martin), he announced his decision. Unused UNRRA funds could carry Europe (principally Italy and France) to Dec. 1. Meanwhile he was asking the Appropriations and Foreign Relations committees of both Houses of Congress to come to Washington. To see Europe through the winter, the President estimated that the U.S. would have to dig up $580 million. How the U.S. did it, he would leave up to the committeemen...
...Indian Reservation at Tama, Iowa, Charlie Davenport took a close look at the squaw corn,† noted that its husks were loose and thin, predicted that the U.S. would have a long Indian summer and that real winter would probably not set in until after Christmas...
...well known to dwell upon. Our friendship during 27 years has always been full of surprises. ... I have always thought Picasso's blue period to be his best until yesterday, when I went to the Grimaldi Museum. ... I had seen quite a bit of Picasso in Paris this winter. When I asked him to come to America and told him about the money he would make there, he shrugged his expressive Latin shoulders, saying, 'Elsa, I hate the sea and I hate money, and I have been working in the Museum at Antibes on what I believe...
Relative income from other sports is interesting. Basketball "earned a little money for the first time in 15 years" last winter because of the popular double-headers scheduled in the Boston Garden in conjunction with such colleges as B.C. and Holy Cross. Hockey seems to be on its way up, although Yale and Dartmouth teams still overshadow the Crimson, the Elis having the use of a rink daily and Dartmouth having natural too while all Boston teams struggle to share what little artificial ice there is. Wrestling, attracted crowds last winter which bordered on Indoor Building basketball turnouts. Bingham attributed...
...Manchester. Last year's captain Watkins took second in the 100-yard freestyle, and Woods, who broke two records when the Freshmen topped Yale, followed in Dave Murray, former Crimson backstroke, in the 150-yard backstroke. In the same meet Chuck Hoeizer, in repitition of many an occasion last winter, led the breast-strokers to the tape...