Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that the recent snowfall caused the first white Thanksgiving in seven years, the college snow fighting machinery was fully prepared to cope with the situation. In fact, the Maintenance Department has been expecting an early winter and is ready, should snow fall again today...
director of the Observatory since 1931, and E. Monroe Howard, Jr., research assistant, are studying the indications given by the clouds. In short term forecasting of snow storms certain clouds fortell a day ahead and give rough indications of when the snow will begin, how severe it will be, and how long it will last...
When the large four story building near Dunster House facing the Charles, which houses the Maintenance Department, receives word of a snow fall of two or more inches, it prepares to send out its tractors and ploughs...
...head of the Republican Senatorial Committee whose particular job was to win Senate seats throughout the U. S., went down to defeat, partly as the result of a split which resulted in two Republican tickets appearing on the ballot. His seat was won by Democrat James Hurd Hughes, snow-haired, 69-year-oldster who has dabbled most of life in politics and is a mild supporter of the New Deal. Next Republican rubbed out was Senator W. Warren Barbour, big, rich, kinky-haired onetime amateur prizefighter who- four years ago won the seat of the late Dwight Morrow...
From Floyd Bennett he buzzed up to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland in less than seven hours, was forced to stay there 24 hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...