Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe equestriennes ride autumn, winter, and summer at Good's Riding School in Medford. When it snows the riders take to an indoor arena...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., identified by Time last week as the father of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., is teaching in the Netherlands this winter and so for the first time in several years he won't be giving History 61b (formerly History 5b) in the spring term. History 61 is the College's basic American history course, and in view of Truman's election it's too bad that former members of the class won't get a chance to find out if Schlesinger would revise his first lecture, which is the past has included his cyclical theory of American...
...spring, a young man's fancy; in the fall, woolly bear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, it will be a mild winter. If the brown band is narrow, the winter will be a freezeroo. So countrymen in the northeastern states have believed...
...year ago, Dr. C. Howard Curran, curator of insects and spiders at New York's American Museum of Natural History, took a look at the woolly bear caterpillars and noted that they all had narrow bands. Sure enough, along came last winter's big snow and ice storms. Curran decided to take another look at woolly bears...
...Hudson River, Curran and a pack of entomologists hunted woolly bear caterpillars (larvae of a tiger moth, Isia Isabella) and measured their waistbands. In 15 specimens, they averaged five and one-third brown segments. Last year, said Curran, they averaged less than three. Does that mean a milder winter ahead...