Word: elk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...zero gale was driving needle-sharp snow over Elk Mountain against the tiny station, piling drifts over the main line to Parco. Traffic had stopped. Outside, almost buried, were a giant mallet locomotive and a mountain snowplow. U.P. General Manager William Martin Jeffers was telling the men he knew the job was dangerous but it had to be done. Not one to give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes...
...PHILLIPS Elk City, Kans...
Hazard. In South Bend, Wash., the local game protector reported elk were crowding the highways, bumming cigarets from autoists. He explained the elk were not smokers, but chawers...
Preserve. In Ouray, Colo., citizens were forbidden to hunt elk on Main Street...
Beaming like the good Baptist, Elk, and Coshocton, Ohio Democrat that he is, amiable old Bill Green strolled in at the Miami-Biltmore Pools to see this year's Miss Florida picked, plopped into a wicker chair next to one that astonishingly enough contained Fandangler Sally Rand, promptly discovered that her conversational resources were also very compelling...