Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neohetramine did show encouraging results last winter when it was elaborately tested, under ideal testing conditions, in Sing Sing prison, in a convent and in a girls' seminary. Of 200 patients who got the recommended dosage, 182 had no colds all winter, 13 mild colds were nipped in the bud, and only four bad colds developed. Among the 300 untreated controls, only 59 were cold-free and 179 had bad ones...
What is the forecast for this winter? JOHN F. ANDREWS Detroit, Mich...
...fall, woollybear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, a mild winter is indicated; if the band is narrow, it will be a hard winter [TIME, Nov. 8, 1948]. This year's bands, according to the museum's naturalists, are wide...
Director Rathbone seemed to be getting the mass appreciation. At week's end, visitors were packing into his museum at a faster rate than at any time since last winter, when 228,000 came to see the traveling exhibit of Berlin art masterpieces. Rathbone's exhibit was also getting huzzas from other museum men. Said a visiting expert from Louisiana: "It should be shown in every city on the Mississippi River...
When Rutgers University needed to save some money during the war winter of 1941-42, a budget official had a bright idea: Why not fire Selman Waksman, an obscure Ukrainian-born microbiologist who was getting $4,620 a year for "playing around with microbes in the soil?" That sort of fun & games, the moneyman pointed out, had never really paid...