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Since the penertration of Henry Ford to even the wilds of New Hampshire, the Dartmouth man is no longer snow-bound. He is mobile, restless--eager to exchange the fraternal camaraderie of Hanover for the more appealing relationships of Smith or Mt. Holyoke. He is indeed, tragically eager at times: in the last year, six Dartmouth men have been killed in auto accidents on their way to or from girls' colleges...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii and Jack Rosenthal, S | Title: Dartmouth A Lonely Crowd | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

Raging ground blizzards threw up new mountainous drifts on the snow-smothered western plains yesterday, piling up fresh blockades to rail and auto travel and posing a new crisis for snow-bound livestock and ranchers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News in Brief | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

...libretto suggests something by Rex Beach out of Minsky, with touches of Snow-Bound and Tosca. Hope and Crosby are confidence men. Setting off for Alaska by ship, they accidentally toss their bankroll out of a porthole. Forced to scrub decks and clean cabins for their passage, they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...literature] are those by virtue of which the race has risen-courage, justice, mercy, honor, love . . . . Has not the time come to restore the American classics? . . . . A few American classics are . . . . important for everybody . . . . a few . . . . important for us. Such, for example, is Whittier, as the folk poet of Snow-Bound, and also by virtue of his passion for freedom . . . . It is important for us to possess an American memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: James Joyce v. Whittier | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...Manchukuo, which has thus far been recognized only by Japan and El Salvador, this abrupt exit was almost equivalent to "breaking off diplomatic relations"'-the traditional prelude to war. In the capital of Manchukuo, snow-bound Hsinking, the Japanese-directed government of Emperor Kang Te branded the fighting last week as "undeclared war" and seemed ready to fight at 30° below zero. In Tokyo, which was digging out from a record snowfall of twelve inches, the temperature was warmer last week than in Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Soviets v. Empires | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

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