Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snow ploughs, mon ami. The Minister of War has ordered that all roads must be kept parfaitment, clear this winter...
Professor Elie Cartan of the University of Paris replied in behalf of all the delegates present in French. The small Frenchman with a snow white Van Dkye, dressed in a brilliant scarlet robe declared, "In this land where the development of techniques based on scientific knowledge reached its height, you have always held that science, apart from its practical applications, has a value of its own as a means of culture for the soul; that, like the Humanities, it has its place among the highest of liberating disciplines...
THIS book was obviously written with all the enthusiasm of a devotee. Mr. Snow is very young for an antiquary: he is too young at all events, to gather his materials from moth-eaten records. His acquaintance with the sites about which he writes is in every instance, first-hand, since he has traveled to see them and has interviewed resident officials and citizens on the spot. For sixteen years he has put time and effort into compiling the detail. Such precocity has resulted in a work which ought to find readers among Bostonians who are interested in local history...
...graduate of Harvard with the class of 1932 Mr. Snow is a teacher of history in the Winthrop High School. It is not academic history which he writes, but a curious kind of travel-book history, both in content and in form. One can find out how to reach the islands as well as what happened on them in days...
...Snow's style is not distinguished, but it makes no undue demands upon the reader. There is not much material in which this reviewer was passionately interested, but one may thank Mr. Snow for reprinting the Deer Island verses of the Rev. F. W. A. S. Brown, wandering poet of Boston Harber, who flourished (or drooped?) in 1819. One may quote from them without further comment...