Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three world citizens were sitting in the sunny Café de Flore, the shrine of Left Bank Bohemia, feeling quite sorry for themselves. After the pleasant splash that First World Citizen Garry Davis had made last winter (TIME, Jan. 10), the world seemed to have lost interest in the movement that was designed to unite it in peace...
...necessary to end their season unbeaten. Bolles has a more humane theory of how to coach a crew than his Yale counterpart, Allen, Walz, a devotee of the work-em-till-they-drop school of though. While Harvard crewmen are allowed to sit around and dissipate most of the winter, the hardy Elis are out on the river, simulating Washington crossing the Delaware. Theoretically, this will make them strong to the point of invincibility come the Harvard-Yale four mile pull in 'late June. It doesn't seem...
...whip up enthusiasm for soccer in the U.S., where the game's most rabid admirers* are in such places as St. Louis, Kearny, N.J. and Fall River, Mass. One reason why soccer may never take the U.S. by storm: the peak of the season comes during the winter months when fans prefer to be indoors and more comfortable watching basketball...
...francs ($16,500) was brought by 17th Century Adriaen Brouwer's Peasants' Meal, a scene as vulgar and unbelted as an after-supper belch. Anthony Van Dyck's forceful portrait of Engraver Paul Pontius went for $11,700; Jacob Ruysdael's cold but kindly Winter Scene for $9,600; Jan Steen's low-comedy Effects of Intemperance...
...they clustered in town squares, ballparks and filling-station driveways. Their crews sat in tents and trailers, cursing the thunderstorms that turned the wheatfields into quagmires. In the few fields that dried out, the first combines scythed their way north across the waving grain. This week, the second biggest winter wheat harvest (an estimated 1,021,000,000 bushels v. 1947's alltime record of 1,068,000,000) in U.S. history would get underway...