Word: snow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...made an attempt to penetrate into the country by one of its many rivers. A guide they hired proved untrustworthy in the extreme, and after they were well into the interior, lured them away from the river by a series of gross misstatements, up into the barren country of snow and rock. Here the wind, which had been blowing continually, suddenly died down, and black flies, the terrible scourge of the country, settled on them. The reindeer which they had brought as pack animals, they left in a snow drift, while they themselves retreated to a little log cabin which...
...poems none stand out except the one by C. P. A., the second stanza of which would be especially charming were it not for the "paradisal snow." Mr. Gray's "Utopia" is not an improvement on Shakspere. The stories are rather slight sketches than stories. "His Valley" by H. B. Wehle is not effective because the one character lacks the terse expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint...
...last practice for the hockey squad before leaving for New York was held last evening in the Stadium. Although the ice was slow, on account of the falling snow, it served to give the forwards and defence a short practice in formations. This was followed by a ten-minute scrimmage with the second team, in which the first team scored two goals to the second team's none. The game was characterized by fast skating and excellent team-work on both sides...
...Shields prefaced his talk on snow slides with a lengthy treatment of the economic value of the game birds to agriculture. Contrary to the common belief, the owls and hawks so generally detested by farmers are a great factor in the destruction of insects harmful to crops. Even the quail, one of the most valued game birds of this section, would do much toward saving the great loss from insects, if it were adequately protected from extermination. The lecturer gave a vivid illustration of the good done by such common birds as the kingbird by stating that although the latter...
...Snow slides are quite like miniature glaciers, being formed by forty or fifty feet of snow drifting info a deep mountain gulch. When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height...