Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly twenty inches of snow lashed the Northeast last night leaving the area buried under one of thickest March drifts in history. In Cambridge, Harvard and Radcliffe were almost completely paralized by the total accumulation of over two feet which fell during the past three days...
...City of Cambridge claimed that it was equal to the emergency. Mayor Edward Sullivan had 30 snow plows in action at 7 p.m. In the College area, however, snow was rising rapidly in the streets and sidewalks, as the drifts defied the city's snow removal power. Not to be denied, a Cambridge official stated that "plows would remain in action 'til the battle...
...University the outlook was not quite so optimistic. Arthur D. Trottenburg, Operating Manager of Houses and Dormitories, said that so far this year plowing and heating expenses were not above last year's totals. But upon learning that more than a foot of snow would fall, he added, "Now we'll just have to sit on it and see what happens...
...youngsters are going to pot sitting in front of their television sets, "Jack Rabbit" Johannsen elected himself a one-man committee to do something about it, and offered his spare time to selling Canadian youth on the muscle-building virtues of cross-country skiing. Last week, deep in the snow-smothered Laurentians at St. Sauveur, Quebec, about 80 boys from 18 Canadian prep schools turned out for the second annual Jack Rabbit Ski Championship. It was an energetic tribute to "Pop" Johannsen's successful salesmanship...
Saturday afternoon, Jim Bacon shovelled his car out of the snow in Beverly, Mass., raced to Hemenway Gymnasium, and proceeded to give Ben Heckscher, number one man on the varsity, his toughest match of the year...