Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GORHAM: 10 inches common crust with 1 inch new windblown powder. Skiing fair to good on slopes. 10 above and fair...
LACONIA-BELKNAPS: 7 inches on slopes unbreakable crust, practically no skiing. Light crust on trails, which are well-covered. 18 above, clear...
PITTSFIELD AND BERKSHIRES--15 to 18 inches heavy powder. One tow running. All trails and slopes skiable. Thin crust as base...
...Swiss peasant who at 17 became a waiter in a Paris restaurant. Fifteen years later he was managing the most luxurious hotels in Europe. By the 90s when the Hotel Ritz opened in Paris, he had made himself a Pied Piper to royalty and the international upper crust, and had given the world the adjective "ritzy." But for most readers the big news in his 70-year-old widow's biography will be that he really existed...
...below the surface," Dr. Brown offered the following hypothesis : astronomers believe that certain stars pulsate bodily, and it is not unreasonable to suspect that the earth, a star, pulsates too. If there is a uniform contraction and expansion of the entire globe a raising of five inches in the crust is sufficient to slow down the earth and account for the maximum lengthening of the day which has so far been observed. The process of expansion, said Dr. Brown, might conceivably take place if there were a layer of material near the earth's surface which...