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...only four days were cloudy between Feb. 16 and March 8. "It was worse last year," the permanent residents said (as it was). And it was a fact that the sun did not make so much difference in Florida as it was generally supposed to make. Since Henry Flagler pushed his bumpy railroad southward to Miami, and the tourists began to seek winter warmth, to millions in the U. S. Florida had become a place to rest, to play, to escape from the year-round realities at home. Up to this week, some 2,000,000 had spent...
...villainous weather through the winter months, it is nevertheless an area in which military operations were carried on, winter and summer, before and during the Revolution and the War of 1812. Over its forested stretches commercial aircraft today operate regularly in summer, with more difficulty in winter. Year-round, it is a country which calls for tough soldiers, both on the ground and in the air, but no tougher than Germany sent into northern Norway in the spring of 1940, or than Russia sent into Finland in the deep winter...
Although soap operas do a fine business for their sponsors both in summer and winter, the grueling year-round grind of performing in them begins to tell on actresses when the days...
...observed once a week at the ceremonial High Table. That spirit lives in every one of the 292 members who inhabit the maze of rooms. That way of life, shared by all members, is cemented by a constant round of communal activity--the Christmas play, the seasonal dances, the year-round sports competition. After ten years of incessant building, the House is infinitely more than a place to eat, sleep, and study...
...Circle) is the Soviet Union's pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the pioneering U. S. 100 years ago. Since 1932 the U. S. S. R. has systematically explored its northland, not only for its resources (nickel, copper, lumber, coal, reindeer, fish, fur), but in an ambitious effort eventually to open for year-round navigation the narrow passage of ice-choked water, now navigable only in summer, which fringes the tundras just south of the Arctic Pack. If that Northeast Passage were open. Russia would have...