Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars in the middle ten days of December were up 4.9% over the first ten days of December, and last week were 34% over the same period in '57. The sales increase was the more encouraging because it came in the midst of freezing weather and snow over much of the U.S.. and at a time when Chrysler production was cut by a strike. Small cars continued to gain speed; American Motors and Studebaker-Packard picked up 6.6% of December sales v. 2.8% last year...
...SEARCH (342 pp.)-C. P. Snow-Scribner...
...didn't like the erotic bits," Lord Rutherford told the young novelist one day in 1934. But otherwise, Britain's most famous scientist conceded, he liked The Search-a first novel by a young spectroscopist named Charles Percy Snow. The book was one of the first to take scientists at their own high estimate of themselves, it presented science itself as a religion, and it even mentioned Rutherford himself as a high pontifical character of unapproachable magnificence...
...will not be like Christmas in Oshkosh, Wis.: "I'll miss the soft, new snow and the ice skating, and most of all the all-day family reunions, and the big, brightly lighted Christmas tree that always touched our living-room ceiling, and the family singing before the fireplace, and the windows of the neighborhood with all the colored lights." Some day Harold Baar will spend Christmas with his family again. "But," he says, "there's still a lot to do in Culion...
...write his syndicated column, "Today and Tomorrow." The study is manifestly a scholar's lair. Ceiling-high, Pompeian red bookcases line three walls; the fourth is decked with framed pictures of Lippmann friends, living and dead: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau. A snow of documents mantles the oaken desk...