Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since he took of fice after Samuel Gompers' death last winter, William Green, President of the A. F. of L., came to the front last week in an important Labor controversy...
...described above, the German Government took retaliatory measures by repatriating Poles, and the exodoi were completed. There the matter stood and will stand until Dec. 1, when the biting cold of a Silesian winter will add, incongruously enough, fuel to the raging fire of hate that one day must (so many a well-informed critic professes) lead to a bitter European war in which strange alignments of Powers will be seen...
...this Chicago recommendation from sponsoring an "all work and no play" policy. More drastic is a recommendation made last winter (TIME, Jan. 19) by The New York World, which quite omitted the rotating-semester feature, saying with cold logic: "It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten-weeks summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...report of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History last spring (TIME, April 13) indicated that El Niño, a warm current from the north which encounters the Humboldt off the coast of Peru about Christmas time, appeared a trifle behind schedule last winter but in unusual volume and southward reach...
...Wittner's case is not taken seriously. It was believed that it will be dismissed for legal reasons on the grounds that he had no right to ask such an injunction. But when the next District of Columbia appropriation bill comes up next winter the question of whether or not the clause will stand must be discussed. Political observers believe generally that it will be discussed and reaffirmed-because the Fundamentalists are militant and the Evolutionists are amused...