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Word: snowiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Real winter came to western Canada last week in the blowiest, snowiest, coldest storm since record-keeping began in 1884. It laid a heavy white hand on the Rockies, then roared down across the prairies. It snapped power and telephone lines, blotted out roads, buried autos, stalled snowplows, isolated towns, made kids happy by closing schools. In Edmonton, where a new record for mid-November warmth (60°) had just been set, the storm shoved temperatures down to 24° below zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Iceman Cometh | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...motorists, skidding, churning, and bogging down in one of the snowiest winters on record, last week heard gripping news. At long last there has apparently been developed an honest-to-goodness nonskid tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chains Cast Off? | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...told why the lights had to go out: as civilians shivered in the coldest, snowiest, blowiest winter in years, the U.S. was smack up against a first-rate crisis in fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold Facts | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Coldest and snowiest Christmas will be James Aldridge's who should be in Moscow by then. He will probably hear plenty of droshky sleigh bells, as the Russians have a lot more to celebrate this year than the Germans-but even so hungry Moscow must be a pretty grim place to spend Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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