Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the recent warm weather and rain which caused temporary cessation of activity, skiing conditions were improving yesterday and are expected to be excellent by the weekend. Franconia Notch, Plymouth, and Pinkham Notch report very good conditions with the Eastern Slopes region also good. Temperatures will remain at about 15 degrees during the day with a forecast of slightly warmer and possible light snow over the weekend...
When asked about the dangers of the expedition, he replied, "I have been told that There are many bandits in that region but I doubt that they will bother me particularly. The thing that most concerns me is the Japanese, who may bomb the main railway line. In that case I will proceed by car, mule-pack, or on foot. I am travelling along because in the first place it will be easier to get through; then, too, it is less expensive...
...wood to keep bonfires going, their only protection against the misty cold. There were no hospital facilities to take care of the 20,000 wounded. Soldiers and civilians injured in air raids wandered around, their wounds festering after days of inattention, looking for aid. Correspondents roaming through the refugee region sent back countless vignettes of human suffering: one crazed refugee, his arm blown off by an air raid, carrying his baby under his good arm, was looking for his wife and remaining children, who he did not know had been killed in the same air raid; new born babies nestling...
...tools. The germs usually enter a dirty wound (sometimes only a pinprick) and incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes rocking on his head and heels. Spasms may be so severe that his stout abdominal muscle is ripped...
Skiing Snow in. Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 21 Powder Brookline, N.H. N.H. Fair Good 14 Powder Cansan, N.H. Fair Good 19 14 over 5 unb. cr. Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Fair Good 67 5 inch new powder Conway, N.H. Fair Good 18 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Cloudy Good 15 4 New Powder Franconia Notch, N.H. Fair Good 48 5 inch new powder Fryeburg, N.H. Fair Good 23 Dry Powder Greenfield, N.H. Fair Good 12 4 inch powder Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 19 Powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 20 Powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Good 21 4 Dry over powder Lancaster...