Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great deal of controversial material to be gone over, and Gissen's and Miss Mehrtens' talks with him, which began in TIME'S offices in Manhattan, were by no means finished when it was time for the Marquands to go to Nassau for their winter vacation. So the conversations were continued in Nassau. The most successful of them took place the day that Author Marquand hired a sloop and conveyed Gissen and Miss Mehrtens to a deserted island, where they spent a peaceful, uninterrupted day. On the way home, however, Researcher Mehrtens, still making notes, was taken...
...House after a 45-minute conference with the President, Lucas glumly admitted: "This issue has to be met sooner or later." Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath feared "the greatest marathon of all times" but promised: "We will fight it out to the bitter end, all summer and all winter if necessary." To his Rhode Island constituents, Senator McGrath declared: "Maybe you won't get all the housing or economic welfare you want. But if these things must wait upon human values then I say, 'Let them wait.'" This week the filibuster began. Georgia's respected...
...varsity finished fourth last winter, trailing Army, Yale, and Columbia. The Heptagonal now has ten teams, and each of them boasts at least a couple of outstanding athletes. Cornell's Bob Mealey, for instance, will probably win his speciality, the 1000-yard dash, and Penn's two-mile relay team is a strong favorite...
...four top members of the varsity month team journey to Princeton today for the National Collegiate Individuals Championships, the tournament that traditionally completes the winter machete season...
...Last winter, the varsity finished fourth behind Army, Yale, and Columbia. Since then, the addition of Brown has boosted Hep membership to ten colleges. All ten are endowed with at least one or two talented athletes. Cornell's sophomore Bob Mealey, the national AAU 1000 champion, will probably win his event tomorrow; Penn has a 7:56 two-mile relay team, Olympic hurdler Jeff Kirk, and two-miler Dick Hart; Brown high jumper Dick Phillips generally gets up ever six-six; Al Holland, of Columbia, has done 1:15.3 in the 600; Princeton's Ronald Wittreich will probably press...