Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After dog teams had started for the mountains, Commander Byrd with Malcolm Hanson and Dean Smith chanced a flight to what disaster they knew not. They found the first party miserable but safe in a wind-ripped, snow-clogged tent. A 150 m. p. h. gale had blown their heavy plane away together with their radio...
...grew stronger. The plane bobbed up and down against its stay ropes. Stronger the wind. Gould, holding a rope, "was blown straight out like a flag." The men hugged the ice, dug knives into it to keep from blowing away. "The wind bellowed and shrieked at us. Pieces of snow, big lumps, began to hit us. They were pieces of packed snow from the mountain two miles away...
...still in the student class, although she has made her first solo flight and that while the ground was covered with snow...
...Oslo for this event dashed Norway's spruce Crown Prince Olaf. This time he came openly and gaily, not as he clandestinely used to come (while courting Princess Martha) with his hat turned down, his coat turned up, and his eyes masked behind a skier's blue snow-goggles. So successful was this disguise that until the official wedding announcement was made not 50 people in all Scandinavia knew of the romance. Last week, after dancing until well-nigh dawn, Prince Olaf rushed back from Stockholm to Oslo, in order to be there to welcome Princess Martha when...
...peasants emerged from church, they espied four young women, all short-skirted, hiking through the village. Soon these hussies were set upon, pinioned, subjected to fierce applications of snow, and finally chased out of Buchau...