Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snow Fields are Dangerous...
Much of the joy of exploration in western Newfoundland consists in attempting to cross these snow-fields, a feat practically impossible unless one cuts steps in the icy masses; for although looking safe enough, these long-weathered snow-fields have a glassy surface, and it is easier to fall than to walk upon them. The photograph of my two companions at the lower edge of such a snow-field illustrates an experience which can be enjoyed on hundreds of slopes in late August after the melting days of summer are past...
...that her campaigning so far had been "perfectly delightful." After a speech at Carmi, she remarked: "I have spoken to an average of 1,200 persons since I started at Shelbyville last Monday and the reception has been extraordinary." Many of the "1,200" had plowed through deep snow in below zero weather to hear her speak...
Hangars are another rarity in the Dominion. Planes are parked out-of-doors. In winter, mechanics build themselves a three-walled shack of lumber or snow, run the nose of the plane in, drape the opening with tarpaulins. An oil stove keeps motors from freezing, the mechanics warm enough to work...
...example, Neil Snow, at Michigan, was a football, baseball and track star. He kept in hard training, facing keen competition, all through fall, winter and spring. Later he suddenly dropped dead after a hard squash racquets match before he was forty. And Neil Snow was one of the finest athletic specimens that ever happened in any university. He was six feet all, weighed 195 pounds and always looked to be in flawless condition. He was--up to an overworked heart...