Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snow, mixed with a northwest wind, drove across Washington's National Airport as the presidential Columbine III touched down on its special flight from Florida. Columbine's chief passenger: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 71, ordered back by his doctors from his convalescence at Jupiter Island. Fla. (TIME, April 13) to re-enter Walter Reed
...very wet corn snow, Crimson captain Don Stephenson won, Bill Niemi and Al Arkley finishing third and fourth respectively. Though Harvard's victory was quite decisive with only three racing for each college, the total times for the two teams were extremely close: Harvard 217 sec., Yale...
...fierce and lonely winter to study the working of nature's balance, report that the wolves' system is to cut a single moose out of a herd and keep nipping at him day after day until he weakens. Sometimes it takes a week. In crusted snow that supports wolves, the most formidable moose cannot escape. But deep, soft snow is a refuge for moose; wolves flounder in it helplessly, and there the moose can turn on its tormentors and stamp out their lives. Since the wolves came, reports Dr. Fredine, the island's population has stabilized...
...Discovery of the microbe that causes a disease is not necessarily the most important factor in halting its ravages. Dr. John Snow checked a cholera outbreak in London in 1854 merely by having the handle removed from the Broad Street pump that was gushing contaminated water. Then the cholera vibrio was found, but volunteers have guzzled billions of them without getting sick-and now the disease, if it develops, can be treated simply by replacing body fluids, without serums or antimicrobial drugs...
...back) that he built last year in fashionable Bloomfield Hills. (When he invited the auto industry brass for a housewarming, one G.M. wife remarked dryly: "George, you've bought yourself quite a gas guzzler.") He begins his day at 5 a.m., uses the first daylight hours, except when snow is on the ground, to play solitary golf with luminous balls at a country club next to his home. He keeps no score, dashes up and lunges at the ball, then chases it across the fairway at a fast jog. Caddies call him "the ghost...