Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privately-owned carriers in the "reserve." After ten years of experiments at Fort Monmouth, N. J., the Signal Corps has developed a brood of 100 night-flying pigeons-first of their kind. Particularly useful in connection with military planes, they can fly through rain, sleet, fog, snow and around thunderstorms, are vulnerable to nighthawks but little else. They do not fly entirely by blind instinct, but apparently have their own system of avigation. The secret is supposedly in the ear, since the birds are unable to fly with their ears stopped up. U. S. distance record for homing pigeons...
Into New York Supreme Court stepped Theatrical Producer Earl Carroll to testify for onetime Showgirl Eileen Wenzel, suing the grandson of Brewer George Ehret, for damages to her beauty in an automobile smash. Said Sexpert Carroll: "She had lustrous hair of fine texture, a forehead like a snow peak and eyes that made men swoon." Said the Justice: "Strike that out. Be more specific." Said Witness Carroll: "Her eyes were bright, her teeth and mouth regular, as was her chest, her throat lovely and her lips inviting." Taking a final look at Miss Wenzel's scarred, pitted face...
...plane flew o'er Alaska Above the ice and snow; The engine started missing The fog was hanging low. It lit upon the water With a mighty splash And when it tried to rise again There was an awful crash...
Besides the mire and dust of gravel paths there is a greater total expense to the university. Asphalt requires very little upkeep and makes snow removal infinitely cheaper and more rapid. The use of dangerous and unsightly narrow wooden walks in winter is unnecessary; the expensive storage and repair of these may be abandoned...
Even persons full of romantic feeling for soft country-like walks will not mourn the passing of dirty shoes, wet feet, stubbed toes, and twisted ankles. Nor will they fail to appreciate during the winter the comfort of not having to step off the boards into the snow at each passing of a professor's wife...