Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition was many times delayed and hampered by violent snow storms, accompanied by dangerous winds. Snow fell almost continually during the ascent. Had it not been for the precaution of planting stakes along the trail the members of the expedition might well have experienced the death they faced on many occasions in the confusing maze of ice fields...
...perfectly safe, and one finally emerges on the gentler and smoother upper crest and soon joins a better trail coming from Lone Pine, north of Owen's Lake, crossing the crest at Whitney Pass, and following just below the rim north to the reak, passable for horses when the snow is not took deep in some of the gulches. From here it was a short and easy climb to the top of Mount Langley...
There was little snow to be seen, because of the small precipitation in recent winters, but the extinct glciation more than compensated. On both sides of the Whitney group, glaciers formed in the cirques under the peaks and flowed down east and west, but in greater volume westward, facing the Pacific. Every stream has a chain of glacial lakes at the head, and between them, as the ice and its rock burden moved down, it carved and gouged and polished the granite in typical glacial forms; a couple of miles below. Whitney on Crabtree Creek a casual estimate...
...Dramatic Club has got to rehearse somewhere else, and decide its location very quickly. It has been suggested that the choice fall upon Parke Snow's vacant store on Massachusetts Avenue, but at present just where the Dramatic Club will move its papier-mache brick walls and scenic archways, and its Three Oranges is a secret...
...They had been glaring at each other for days. There was going to be a fight. And when, in Prof. Carl C. Wheaton's junior law class, Hallisey got up to open a window, Casey told him not to. With eyes no bigger than squirt-holes in the snow, Hallisey edged up to Casey, dragging one foot behind the other. "Lead at me," he said, "Lead-you funny fellow." He was uttering words never before heard in the law class of Prof. Carl C. Wheaton. Casey led. His fist flicked Hallisey's jaw, knocking him against...