Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ascents are to be made of the principal peaks in the region visited. These will include the Weisshorn, the Breithorn, and Monta Rosa, the second loftiest mountain of Europe, which is considered one of the best of Alpine climbs and said to offer some of the finest snow work in Switzerland...
...Over snow-capped Mexican mountains, over 700 mi. of Gulf water, the onetime Boston social worker flew. She picked up her landfall near New Orleans. Aided by wind & weather, guided by radio and a perilous run of nearly two miles...
...named Klondike Iceberg-first bull ever born in Little America; 15 emperor penguins, of which one was decidedly indisposed; the knowledge that seal meat looks like liver, but tastes different; indisputable proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
Poles had just dismantled their elaborate snowplow equipment for the regular spring overhaul last week when suddenly the first May blizzard since 1685 overwhelmed Central and Western Poland with from six to 20 inches of snow. Canceled were all parades on the Polish National Holiday. Prosperous Poles went Maying in sledges piled with fur lap robes...
...drought-starved Western cattle were shipped to Cherryfield. They failed to recuperate, left natives with a large number of ribby carcasses on their hands. Cherryfielders piled the hulks on wagons, carted them to a lonely spot well back from their Black Woods road, dumped them out to rot. Snow soon covered the charnel heap...