Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn the mortgage-burdened farmer plowed, harrowed and seeded 40,000,000 acres of good wheat land. The seed sprouted. The farmer returned to pass long winter evenings by his radio, leaving the care of his crop to the climate that God should provide. But snow did not come to protect the seedlings from the cold and or rain did not fall to give them moisture when they needed it in spring. When the farmer went forth in the early May sunshine, instead of finding his flat fields covered with a lush green growth of young grain, he found...
...Scifarello in Calabria 400 mi. to the south, rangers of the Fascist Forest Militia ended a search for a French Air-Orient liner which disappeared last fortnight en route from Corfu, Greece to Rome. The rangers found two men and a woman, nearly dead of cold, huddled in the snow-covered wreckage of the plane which also sheltered the bodies of the two pilots, three other passengers...
...Death in the Woods," plotless, atmospheric, describes the memory of finding an old woman frozen to death in the snow. '"The Return" tells how a man came back to his home town years later, and how he was glad to run away from it the same night. In "The Fight" two respectable, middle-aged cousins who have never liked each other finally have the fistfight they should have got out of their systems when they were boys. Having given and received a black eye, a bloody nose, they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never...
...dress. White shoes, and crazy hats, and all kinds of old clothes. Now at Dartmouth, they have sensible clothes. And another thing. I don't see why you don't have a winter carnival like they do in New Hampshire. Where would they get the snow? Why don't be silly. Where do those clever people at Dartmouth get it? From the sky, of course. I read in the CRIMSON about how those haberdashers on the Square said that you boys were not the collegiate style leaders because you were afraid to wear the latest styles. That's not right...
...window washing service, composed of students who made up the snow shovelling crew this winter, has been formed by the Student Employment Office, it was announced last night by J. M. Swigert, assistant secretary for student employment. Over 300 letters have been sent out, to prospective customers...