Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Photographic Society, in an attempt to bring out the fact that photography has an artistic side, plans to present a unique exhibit of winter scenes. One of the unusual prints will be a night picture of a tree in the Yard covered with snow. Another is a view of an ice-bound ship showing the propeller and rudder deep under the surface. Some snow scenes photographed from an airplane will probably be shown...
Reports late last night showed that there was a great deal of snow in the northern regions and that the temperature was generally around zero. In Woodstock, Vermont the temperature was 6 degrees with 40 inches of snow, in Canaan, New Hampshire--6 degrees with 30 inches, in Gorham, N. H.--6 degrees with 55 inches, in Warren, N. H.--8 degrees with 60 inches, Peterborough, N. H.--18 degrees with 36 inches, in Franconia, N. H.--6 degrees with 45 inches, in Chocorua, N. H.--zero with 50 inches, in East Jaffrey, N. H. 18 degrees with 40 inches...
With 45 inches of snow and the temperature six below zero, the conditions should be perfect for the skiing meet to be held on Sunday on the Taft Trail in Franconia, New Hampshire. Harvard will send a team consisting of Herbert S. Sise '34, Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34, Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34, John U. White '34, and Edward O. Davis, Jr. '34, and will compete against other local teams...
...When the snow piles up 18 inches under foot and the wind howls incessantly with almost gale-like velocity, what explanation has the Weather Bureau to offer? Why has this been the most severe winter in years? Is it a sign of the approach of another ice ago or merely an accident which may be expected periodically...
...hours later it was in the neighborhood of Boston. Yesterday this wind brought show to regions extending from Memphis, Tennessee to Halifax. In some parts of Maine and in the White Mountains there are huge drifts nine and ten feet deep. Of course, the real damage caused by this snow will not manifest itself until next spring...