Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally, the Crusaders are favored. They belong among the top five teams in the nation and their only losses so far this winter have been two-pointers to Kentucky and Tulane, and a six-point yielding to the number one team, Easy Ed Macauley and/or St. Louis. But generally, the Cross has to work up a good sweat to dispose of the Crimson...
...with eight goals. He has also registered two assists. Best playmaker so far has been the former Exeter center, Miles Huntington, who has been operating on the same line with Dave Abbot for the past five years, here and previously at Exeter. He has set up eight goals this winter, while scoring five himself...
Intercollegiate play picks up again in February, when the Crimson swings into the only really tough portion of the winter's schedule. Coming up are battles with traditionally strong Army, Penn, Princeton, and Yale...
Problem of Plenty. In its first crop forecast for 1949, the Department of Agriculture estimated that the winter wheat crop would be a near-record 964,808,000 bushels. That could mean a whopping surplus piled on top of this year's surplus. Although the Department had urged an 8% cut in winter wheat acreage, farmers (spurred by the price support law) had increased their acreage by 5%. It would cost taxpayers millions in support payments...
...when the North American Review published extracts of The Diary of a Public Man, the book immediately became an important historical source. It purported to be a diary kept during the winter of 1860-61, in Washington. The story of Douglas' behavior at Lincoln's inaugural (Lincoln had no place to lay his hat, fidgeted with it, until Douglas stepped forward and took it from him) is one of the many familiar stories that come from this famous diary. James Ford Rhodes, Carl Sandburg, Ida Tarbell and other Lincoln biographers accepted the book as genuine ; only the biographer...