Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make up the Crimson team are competitively chosen from the membership of the Harvard Yacht Club. From the 45 men who annually spend fall and spring practising in the MIT dingies and the winter hearing speakers and seeing yachting movies, a "managerial board" picks the Crimson yachting team...
Dinghy sailors can always find a race somewhere. The Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association conducts a host of regattas in the fall and spring, and in the winter the Marblehead and other "frostbite" races never fail to lure hardier college yachtsmen, some of whom insist on racing in shorts...
...Reds put out peace feelers that seemed a little more urgent than the peace bids they had made during the winter for propaganda purposes. Miltiades Porphy-rogenis, Minister of Justice in the rebels' "free" Greek government, cabled President Herbert Evatt of the U.N. General Assembly, appealing for a U.N.-negotiated settlement of Greece's civil...
...Properly, champagne is fermented and aged in wooden casks through the winter, then pumped into large blending vats where rock candy is added to induce fermentation. The brew is then bottled and corked. The bottles are stacked on their sides for two or three years, then restacked cork down. Daily, an expert workman grasps and shakes each bottle, thus precipitating the sediment onto the cork. Five or more years after the date of vintage, the bottle is recorked for shipment. Speedup methods have long been used by American companies. The trick consists largely in maintaining vat temperature...
With the King George case postponed until next fall, the Gloucester County case was decided first. U.S. District Judge Sterling Hutcheson last winter found Superintendent J. Walter Kenney and the three-man school board guilty of contempt for failing to carry out the equalization order. But the judge delayed sentence to give the defendants a little longer...