Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as the Red Sea divided and the Jordan ceased to flow, so snow came to Hanover; Possibly it was due to faith in traditions and possibly it was due to an acute weatherman; at any rate the climatic conditions are favorable and Dartmouth treads the crystal path of dalliance...
...homecoming is to western universities, what prom week is to academies for young ladies, what the Yale game is to Harvard--all that and more is Carnival to Dartmouth College. But there are certain requisites in order that the occasion may, be successful: the first is a quantity of snow--the better to ski with, my dear. One is told that Jupiter-Pluvius, or whoever arranges such things, has never yet failed Dartmouth College. There has always been snow for Carnival. The night may have closed on a green world but dawn was huge drifts on the white Mountains...
...Once the snow has arrived it is duly trampled on and none is saved for purpose of "miraculous exhibits." And afterwards, during the long winter evenings in New Hampshire, the circle huddles closer to the fire. "It was a nice carnival" says someone. "Oh, yes and did you notice all the snow...
...Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt of shining yellow snow...
...countless shipyards along the snow blown coast, yachts are perched on stanchions like huge huddled birds, shivering, waiting for spring. Yachtsmen puff their pipes solemnly at home, telling stories, wagering on races before summer winds. Yachtsmen pore over specifications, they telephone brokers, they enviously peruse stories in the newspapers of other yachtsmen building palaces that float. Last week arrived in New York the Savarona, longest motor yacht in the world, built at Wilmington, Del., for Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, of Philadelphia. Experts, friends, reporters scrambled along her decks absorbing her astounding luxuries, delved in her engine rooms peering at gauges...