Word: norther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...howled down out of the Northwest, spun off the flanks of the Colorado Rockies, and whirled free and angry across the Great Plains. To western Kansans, this was it-a sure-enough "blue norther,"* the season's first. Soon screaming winds, as high as 80 miles an hour, lashed the wheatfields with blinding snow and churned up great white drifts. Transcontinental trains ground to a halt; ice-sheathed communication lines sagged and snapped. Thousands of grubbing cattle, trapped in the snow, froze to death on the hoof...
...hinge upon the final Saturday afternoon clash of the Crimson and the Blue, but Dartmouth has an outside chance of getting a first place tie. The Big Green might upset Yale and earn a tie in the standings if Yale goes on to down Harvard. The winner of the norther division journeys to Stamford, Conn., next week to meet Georgetown, southern division standard bearer...