Word: 1880s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great as normal, makes Rockies residents look toward the spring thaw with apprehension. Says California Meteorologist Jerome Namais: "This is potentially a very dangerous situation." All over the region, the snow facts seem almost like Paul Bunyan tall tales. Utah and Idaho last endured such snowy winters in the 1880s. In Alta, Utah, more than 20 ft. fell during December alone, exceeding the previous record by 5 ft. "I've never seen a winter this hard on deer," says Joe Gerrans, a Colorado wildlife supervisor. The snows came unusually early, so the herds had only a brief time...
...added that he wanted to avenge the four losses which his graduating class suffered to Yale. He notes that his was the only class since the 1880s to go winless in four attempts...
...there are small stirrings of renaissance. In May, for only the second time since 1954, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival went to a Japanese film: Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, an elemental and unsentimentahzed portrait of Japan's mountain people in the 1880s. The same festival also showcased Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, a P.O.W. melodrama set in Java in 1942 starring David Bowie and two popular Japanese performers, Singer-Songwriter Ryuichi Sakamoto and the TV comic Takeshi. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is scheduled to open this fall...
...Harvard men of the 1880s who wanted to look dapper for their home town sweethearts, an Ulster Coat imported from London was de rigeur at $12.00. Those of robust constitutions travelling short distances could opt to dash home through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh rented from Blake, Hack, and Livery Stable complete with lap robe and whip...
Aggressive expansion has been the hallmark of the Kohler Co. ever since 1873, when Herbert's grandfather John Michael Kohler and a partner opened a foundry to make farm implements in a small town north of Milwaukee. In the early 1880s, Kohler had the idea of coating cast-iron horse troughs with enamel and offering them to farmers as bathtubs...