Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hill, was fitted with an elaborate system of bells by which her "watchers" could be summoned. Mr. Dickey relates how Mrs. Eddy requested her disciples to care for the weather. "During some severe New England winters our leader would instruct her workers they must put a stop to the snow which she regarded as a manifestation of error...
Once more the snow drifts are piling up about the massive flanks of Widener and masking the jutting pinacles of Memorial Hall. The student has resurrected his galoshes from the back of his clothes closet and started with a load of books for the library reading room. Winter has returned again, and with it the cold winter habits...
Four earnest, weary, middle-aged men motored and trudged hither and yon through muddy snow of the Monongahela Valley last week. At moments they were self-important, at others selfconscious...
Flood Control. Last week, not quite one year after the beginning of the most enormous peacetime calamity in U. S. history, residents of the Mississippi Basin, looking northward, saw millions of acres of snow that would soon melt and incalculable clouds of rain that would soon fall. Winter had come and spring was not far behind. The peace of the public mind was not promoted during the week by an address to the third annual Midwest Power Conference, in Chicago, by Major-General Edgar Jadwin. As Chief of Engineers for the Army, General Jadwin may be expected to know what...
...less obscure adventures to which men direct their attention. Yet, at each end of the earth, a bone is buried. And for this bone, with equal ardour, under a sky that is like a shallow bell of cold and darkly irridescent glass, across terraced and interminable lawns of snow, men and dogs scramble together. Last week, Richard E. Byrd, famed aviator, spoke of his proposed South Polar expedition. Said he: "I shall take three airplanes and 100 dogs...