Word: snow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being averse to melody, and is a little sensitive about it. Once someone praised a rare tuneful passage in one of his string quartets. Said Piston, who doesn't consider himself exactly tuneless: "That's what I call, 'Don't throw me out in the snow, Father...
...York City's blizzard of '47 (TIME, Jan. 5) was largely a memory by last week; but a lot of loaded snowballs were still being thrown-mostly at the weatherman. The New York Times sternly demanded to know what had happened to forecasts lately ("occasional snow," forsooth, on the day of the 25.8-incher). And what, asked the Times, was being done about...
First, the Weather Bureau's research budget (now a skimpy $200,000 a year) needed a hefty boost. With about $10 million, Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer figured that the bureau could give storm and snow clouds a deeper plumbing, learn a lot more about the mysteries of the upper air, and develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer...
...Sudan, whose sandy hair is thinning now, tells about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...
Cambridge police roamed side streets off the Square yesterday nabbing cars parked along the narrow, snow-congested thoroughfares. Police Captain Marr announced that the cars were plugging slippery side streets, and, in view of many local complaints, were being warned off. Second offenses will be honored with a night of parking in the police garage and a fine, Marr said...