Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact seemed to be that the Kremlin badly wanted a settlement. The airlift had defeated the Russian blockade, costing the Russians dear in prestige and popularity. It had transported 1,540,969 tons in 310 days, steadily upped its totals in spite of the German winter. Meanwhile the West's counter-blockade had pinched Eastern Germany badly. With the Communists' gigantic triumphs in Asia, they could afford a strategic retreat in Europe without disastrous loss of face...
...nothing ever gave him more excitement than what was, for Cliff, the newly discovered horse game. He bred Old Rockport himself (and named him after his favorite Texas golf course). After Old Rockport won the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby last winter (TIME, Feb. 28), Mooers got a transcription of the announcer calling the race; he still listens to it entranced, tears rolling down his cheeks...
Another of the non-athletic committee's jobs is finding berths in the Houses for visiting debaters. The committee's plans were badly shaken once this winter when the University of Pennsylvania showed up with a girl on its teams. Some last minute scurrying got the lady a bed in an off-campus house at Radcliffe. She apparently liked the Annex, because she stayed a week. In the meantime, a McGill team arrived to debate Harvard, and the Pennsylvania lass struck up acquaintance with one of the Canadians. When last heard from she was on her way to Montreal...
This afternoon the varsity will have a somewhat easier time when it plays Wesleyan at 3:45 p.m. at Soldiers Field. But Wesleyan boasts number one man Henri Salaun who also gave the squash team a hard time last winter...
...among the '52 football players at this time is right end Fred Ravreby. Six foot three inch Ravreby spent the winter knocking people out of the boxing room and then started out the spring practice as a tackle. The sudden dearth, however, of right ends, plus Ravreby height and speed caused the switch to end, and here he will probably remain this fall. If he continues to improve, Fred Ravreby is the best bet among the freshmen to make the 1949 football squad...