Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George L. Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature emeritus. "Kitty," with the white beard as pure as driven snow" to countless Harvard generations, retired at the end of the academic year 1935-36. His English 2 "Shakspere: Six Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the examination with its long memory question and its 60 to 70 "spot" passages was terror of many finals and mid-years. Professor Kittredge with his spotless beard, and his pearl gray flannel, and his glasses that flew up the lapel to their hanger with never a hitch...
Last week this new, shorter Northwest Passage's navigability was dramatically demonstrated as Hudson Bay Company's Eastern Arctic Patrol Nascopie sounded her way through Bellot Strait. Snow shrouded the Arctic dusk as head on through the haze came the bow of another ship. Nascopie's Captain Thomas Smellie's incredulous hail got a booming reply from veteran Arctic Trader Patsy Klingenberg, from the deck of the Schooner Aklavik, eastbound to Baffin Island, and astonished Eskimo cheers from both crews echoed through the rock-bound channel. That night captains of both vessels described from their anchorages...
...does wrong to think in meeting." Once, also, he was mountain-climbing with a member of the Rowntree family and two guides, and complied with the guides' request to pass a liquor bottle from one to the other. At this Climber Rowntree stuck his Alpine stock into the snow, intoned a quotation from the Friends Book of Discipline: "Are Friends careful to avoid the use of liquors and the passing of them to others...
...much I saw lying there. Deomys, a lanky rat with hind legs like springs, came bounding past in pairs, their sleek orange fur glistening in the half-light, their white bellies immaculate as snow. Bundles of purplish fur bobbed up and down amongst the water weeds, every now and then appearing on open patches of mud and sand, balanced on their pale, stilt-like supports and long, naked tails. A marsh rat (Malacomys) has much to do as darkness falls, searching out likely feeding grounds, cleaning his dense woolly coat, preening his immense whiskers, and apparently fraternizing with his kind...
After the Lewis speech the delegates, pounding, shouting, waving their banners, unanimously adopted a motion calling for a special assessment of $1 on each member to raise a war chest for the drive on Ford. "We'll be in before snow flies," said Homer Martin. That was the signal for a long demonstration with the convention band blaring Solidarity Forever...