Word: snow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane spotted the crashed C-47, circled low. Then a wingtip brushed the mountain and the search plane crashed, too. Only survivor of a ten-man crew, Sergeant Angelo LaSalle of Des Moines, Iowa, was thrown clear, stumbled away from the burning fragments, fell unconscious in the snow. There he was found by Horst Kupski, a onetime Luftwaffe pilot working for an upland French farmer. Kupski wrapped LaSalle in a blanket, removed his own shoes, coat and hat to clothe the American, got him down the mountainside...
...hope of a warm and balmy February or March," says Charles F. Brooks '12, professor of Meteorology and director of the University's Blue Hills Observatory. "The chilling effects of the great quantity of snow now on the ground will keep the air cold...
...hundred one crew candidates tramped through the snow to Nowell Boathouse last night to hear stern words from Coach Tom Bolles. "Every rowing college in the country is out to beat us. We can make any college's season a success by losing to them," he said...
Digging out from the worst accumulation of snow in years will cost Boston and Cambridge almost $800,000, Public Works offices disclosed yesterday, as workers continued day and night at the seemingly endless task of clearing city streets...
Tractors and chains on heavy snow-clearing trucks have ripped up streets everywhere. Although 500 tons of asphalt patch have already been poured on Cambridge streets, this is far short from the actual needs...