Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under sodden skies, tens of thousands of vacationing Britons trooped back to grimy workaday lives at Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London with little to look back on but dreary days in shabby, seaside boarding houses. There were some Britons, however, whose vacation memories would glow brighter through the long winter months ahead. Among these were the 21,000 returning from Butlin's five "Luxury Holiday Camps" in England, Scotland and Wales...
...Winter. "It is a very sad time. There are no leaves; there are no birds; there is no sun. And the snow makes everything so silent. I felt very well, but I did not like...
...last winter the "beautiful she-pupils" of Vassar enjoyed the teachings of an exchange professor, Dr. Jorge Costa Neves, of the University of Brazil. So stimulating were his courses in the Portuguese language and Brazilian civilization that Vassar's president, tart Sarah Blanding, seldom missed a lecture herself. Now back in Rio for a year before returning to Vassar, able Jorge Costa loves to expound on how the U.S. looks to a Brazilian...
There were 40 priests in the first class in 1889. Today, after 59 years, coed "C.U."* stands out in scholarship among the 167 U.S. Catholic universities and colleges the way Notre Dame stands out in sports. Its enrollment is bulging: 4,182 students in winter, an even more influential summer school of 3,000 priests, nuns and teachers from all over the U.S. Last week the rector announced a $1,250,000 expansion of the 142-acre C.U. campus...
...first to sniff the air. Last winter a congressional Banking & Currency subcommittee looked into Lustron's deals and called for a full-dress investigation. To help launch the company, the subcommittee found, RFC had made the loan, although it had never been approved by the RFC's examiners, as is customary. An earlier loan for $32 to $52 million had been blocked by onetime RFC Director George Allen...