Word: snow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About snowshoeing one publicity brochure says, "Inns and lodges often keep snowshoes on hand to lend the non-skier or the person who wishes to go afield and read the tracks written in the snow by wild creatures...
Raging ground blizzards threw up new mountainous drifts on the snow-smothered western plains yesterday, piling up fresh blockades to rail and auto travel and posing a new crisis for snow-bound livestock and ranchers...
Actually, of course, the ski events are as irrelevant to the Carnival as the huge snow imp poking his nose out of the huge snow boot in the middle of the campus, Like the comedians at the Old Howard, the skiers are just there to keep the crowd amused in its spare moments...
Project Cirrus (a joint cloud study program of the services and G.E.) has been very successful, said Dr. Langmuir. Thirty-five of its cloud-seeding flights changed super cooled clouds* into ice or snow crystals. Last October, at Albuquerque, two large cumulus clouds were sprinkled with dry ice. They turned into a furious thunderstorm that drenched Albuquerque with heavy rain at a time of year when rain is uncommon...
...what Dr. Bell simply called the "trained eye." Meanwhile, he became a demon boxer, wrestler, rugby player. Before he got his medical degree he shipped on an Arctic whaler as naval surgeon, began the voyage by hanging a mouse on the steward's eye, ended it covered with snow and blood after charging a herd of seals with a poleax. "I just feel as if I could go anywhere, and do anything," he told his admiring mother...