Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tasmania; the sixth state, is an island south of forty. The whole continent is rather warmer than the United States, approximately one-third of the northern part within the tropics. The climate may be compared with that of California; sunny weather predominates and except in Tasmania and the mountains snow is practically unknown...
...peninsula of Kamchatka, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, the volcanoes Montnovsky and Avatchinskayasopka erupted amid earth quakings and buried the snow covered city of Petropavlovsk beneath avalanches of molten lava...
...White Plains, N. Y., one Richard Kefter loaded his automobile last week with apples and hay. He started. A deer bolted from the woods, gave chase. Retarded by snow Mr. Kefter could not distance the beast, was chased for five miles. At last he threw out five apples and an armful of hay. The deer stopped, content...
...must find shelter", quoth Fish. I could only laugh. Where could one-find shelter on the peak like this We forged on through bank after bank of snow. We had not even received a bid to a "deb" dance, not even a De Pinna advertisement for hours...
...insisted on bringing tea. He said he always used it at the poles. So we had tea, high tea, then and there. Of course the snow hindered us, but what is one hindrance more or less. Refreshed we made the last nine inches in ten flat. And what do you suppose we found? Well, some one had evidently climbed the dear old mountain before. For there was a bright, shiny Statler Hovel, newspapers at every door...