Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During a blizzard that blanketed Upper Darby, Pa. last month, Appliance Dealer Mort Farr bought TV time to advertise an air-conditioner sale. Reported Farr: "It was the best sale I ever had." Last week, though the weather was milder, air-conditioner sales were setting new records throughout the U.S. Sales of room coolers alone were up 100% over last year's first quarter. The selling period for conditioners, once as brief as the Bikini season, is now being extended throughout the year as more and more consumers think of airconditioning, with its filtered air, as a year-round...
...varsity lacrosse team spent a week following some of the nation's finest opposition around the green fields of the Southern Territory, picking up sun tan and bruises and perhaps a little wisdom. At week's end, they piled into their bus and followed the blizzard from Annapolis to Boston. Road time...
...Weather Bureau's failure to give an adequate warning of the March 17 blizzard was due to its complete lack of reports on Atlantic air conditions, according to Charles F. Brooks '12, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory. The University meteorologist cited "the lack of upper air reports and inadequate knowledge as to how to interpret them," as a major source of difficulty...
That's what New England decided as it suffered its third blizzard since the vernal equinox. The four to 15 inches of snow falling on the northeast marked the worst April snowstorm in years...
Lieutenant J. Harry McCaffrey of the Cambridge Police called the blizzard "the worst we can remember." Fifteen tow-trucks which had been continuously at work since 6 p.m. could not cope with all the cars that broke down on streets...