Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all other Crimson winter squads have completed their seasons save a few championships, the unsung varsity skiing team is just now approaching the thick of its schedule...
Stephenson's top performance was in the big Dartmouth Winter Carnival, in which the varsity finished second to the University of Maine in the Class B competition. At Hanover the varsity captain was named skimeister, the individual with the highest average in all of the day's events--downhill, slalom, cross-country, jumping, combination downhill-slalom, and combination cross-country-jumping...
...Heavy favorites failed to make the grade in two of the winter's richest horse races. In the $145,000 Santa Anita Handicap, C. W. Smith's Hillsdale (at 4 to 5 odds) was overtaken by Terrang in the last hundred yards, lost by half a length. In the $135,800 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, Christopher T. Chenery's flashy three-year-old, First Landing (17 to 20), was never a serious factor, finished third behind Bayard Sharp's Troilus...
Toward the tag end of winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch. As Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford or Cambridge, circa 1360, according to tradition) wrote about the approach of spring, "thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela...
Except for this flatulent postscript, Author Menen's sprightly wit and stylish prose make The Fig Tree the choicest summer reading of the winter...