Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful Lhasa expedition of 1923 attracted attention all over the world. After crossing snow-blocked passes higher than the topmost summits of the Alps continually in danger from the fanatical Tibetian monks, who put to death all strangers. McGovern, disguised as a Tibetian coolie, succeeded in reaching the capitol. Thus Dr. McGovern, a young man still under 30, surmounted the obstacles in this most hazardous undertaking, in which many of his distinguished professors had failed...
...years ago, and, proud, they refused to conceive children unless their master promised their first-born freedom. Thus was St. Benedict prenatally free. At 21 he joined the order of hermits of St. Francis. One day when the friars could not get food, because of a heavy fall of snow, Benedict filled several large vessels with water, and prayed all night to God. Next morning the water was full of fishes. Pope Pius VII (1800-23) canonized...
...about and landed upon the 300-ft.-by-20-foot plateau which is the summit of Mount Helvellyn, third highest eminence (3,118 feet) in England. Later the speck ascended again, soared away. It was Pilot John Leeming Of the Lancashire Aero Club who, with a bonfire on the snow to indicate the wind and crosses marking possible landing sites, sought to demonstrate upon what a small place an airplane can land...
...coyote's. On each side of its spine, beginning just back of the shoulders, grew a pair of muscular ridges, for all the world like two pairs of rudimentary wings, furred heavily. The feline's hind feet measured five inches, spreading out like the feet of a snow-shoe rabbit...
...butt of witticism by Chairman William Haynes Truesdale, of the Delaware, Lackawanna. "Who was that Negress you were talking to?" boomed the Erie's President Under ood at Mr. Truesdale. Mr. Truesdale, who always seemed sleepy eyed, answered: "She was not a Negress. That was Phoebe Snow and she has just come back from Buffalo on the Erie." Mr. Underwood, during his 26 years' presidency of the Erie* made it a road excellently operated. But he had not been able to pay his preferred dividends very often, and had never paid common dividends. That was because the Erie...