Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game losing streak as obvious as a ten-month pregnancy, Bill Barclay's varsity basketball team gets another chaned at the Arena tonight when it goes against EIL runner-up Columbia at 9:30 p.m. Gordon Ridings' small but quick Lions gouged the Crimson 86 49 earlier this winter in New York...
...this winter Lowell has the flashiest athletic record. Unbeaten Bellboy teams hold first place in both the A basketball league and the A squash league. But in League B basketball Lowell's cellar team isn't even a threat, while the Deacon squad is on top with a record of no defeats...
...most ancient wooden building in the world, the 1,300-year-old Golden Hall of Japan's Horyuji Monastery, is unheated and wretchedly uncomfortable in cold weather. So when government painters worked through the winter to copy the shrine's twelve famous murals of the Buddhas and their disciples, the foresighted brought along a few electric heating pads to sit on. One evening a fortnight ago, one of the artists forgot to flip the switch before he left. Next morning, a party of schoolchildren on their way to visit the shrine saw clouds of smoke billowing from...
...problems. The Catholic director, cheery, pink-faced Alfons Loebbert, a layman, has more of these than Protestant Pastor Reich, since some 400 of the Catholic children are neither orphans nor wanderers: they are children of Berliners, flown out of the city by the R.A.F. at the beginning of winter, to ease the burden of the blockade...
Luckily for the members of the Crimson skiing team, which placed eighth in the nine-college competition at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, there was plenty going on in Hanover, New Hampshire to dull their disappointment...