Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pine-covered face of Hakodate Head and The Peak, and enfolded the secret forts on the heights. The crows flapped up from the garbage in the slums to be whirled helplessly to the base of the two peaks, where they dropped on limp wings. Children hung their snow sleds beside the door and squatted down to a Hokkaido (Japan's New England) supper of fish, beans and rice. In the Bay a forest of masts swayed wildly. But wind and cold are nothing new to the citizens of Hakodate, Japan's ninth biggest city and enterprising port...
With dawn the fire had feasted fully on Hakodate. The bodies of the drowned were coming in with the morning tide, nudging the wharves. Blackened, blank-faced men groped over the steaming ruins. A sharp sleet was falling. Soon it turned to snow. The survivors huddled in barracks on the peaks, in a few schools still standing, in the railway station and the British and Russian consulates. Some strayed out on the bleak mainland, looking for shelter in the huts of the aboriginal Ainus. Sixty of them died in the snow. Officials began doing their terrible sums. They made...
...Jock" ) Whitney, who has not missed a Grand National in six years and who had better luck than usual when his Thomond II finished third last week, is William Collins Whitney's grandson. Delaneige, who led the field most of the way, is owned by John B. Snow, merchandise manager of Woolworth's in England. G. H. Wilson, Golden Miller's jockey, is a Canadian, champion British gentleman jockey with 61 victories last year...
...decided the crew was to take a night spin to get the feel of the water at flood tide. Precedent was broken when they went up to the course at Putney a week earlier than usual, a week ahead of Cambridge. Then bad luck began to break. Snow and biting cold set in. No. 7 poisoned his finger. No. 6 came down with influenza. A new man was seated at bow a week before the race. But these were not the least of Oxford's misfortunes. On race day last week, Cambridge won the toss for lanes, chose...
...principal outside jobs filled were those of waiters, window-washers, snow shovelers, clerks, tutors, entertainers, and chore workers. Within the University, much work has been done in the various buildings, in the way of repairs and new construction. In the Peabody Museum at present, a student is repairing a totem pole, others are mending ancient skeletons, and cementing excavated fragments of pottery...