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...that the conqueror was surrounded, the men of the battalion alone among silent enemies, and no man might relax his guard for even a moment. If he did, he disappeared, and some snowdrift received his body. If he went alone to a woman, he disappeared. ... If he drank, he disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Viewpoint of Victory | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...taken for a ride" in a white car. When the college area had been left the lawmen impressed the culprits with a few terse comments that their actions should not be repeated. Breathing acquiesence they were whisked back to the scene of the crime and left standing in a snowdrift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUTIOUS POLICE NAB THREE '43 DAREDEVILS ON THIN ICE | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

Onetime Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, in a Stamford, Conn. court, paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it to a train before news photographers could flash a bulb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Dance of Death-Helen McCloy-Morrow ($2). The story of a body, uncannily resembling a celebrated debutante, found in a snowdrift, solved by a psychiatrist whose medical and psychological analyses make more sense than scientific details usually do in detective fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder Market | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...copper. Its salmon shipments have been worth as much as $42,000,000 in a single year. . Alaska cost precisely $7,200,000* ($12 per sq. mi.) when the U. S. Government bought it from Russia, since the Muscovites considered it not much better than a huge, bear-infested snowdrift. Last week, this colossal real-estate coup-engineered by Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State William Henry Seward-was somewhat inappropriately commemorated in Washington, D. C. Payment of the $7,200,000 was made by a check on the Treasury signed by Treasurer of the U. S. Francis Elias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Canceled Check | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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