Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shovel snow in yard for hanging out clothes...
...sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges too late; urchin runs like hell; gentleman, being gentleman, retires with woman and unshot gun; nor murders, no tutors, no harm done...
Three jolly young Germans, two of them stalwart youths and the third a pretty girl, burst shouting and laughing last month into a lonely Czechoslovak inn among the crags of snow-mantled Bohemia. They had come from Kiel to ski, they announced, and ski they did day after day, seeming to take no notice of the tiny inn's only other guest. Closelipped, morose and nervous, Herr Rudolf Wormys spent most of the time in his bedroom with the thick wooden door heavily bolted...
Strategic Finnish railways, for example, run in winter under snow sheds or wood-lined tunnels through the snow, keep punctually on schedule. All winter long the trans-Norwegian Oslo-Bergen Railway speeds on time between Oslo and Bergen, the chief port for England, a run of 320 miles, made twice daily under numerous sheds buried for months beneath from ten to 40 ft. of snow...
...Seton and the late W. H. Hudson. Superficially an unlikely anecdote about two animals, it is really a gentle and persuasive nature lyric, expressing, in a photographic style brilliant enough to make it one of the best pictures of the year, the calm, dangerous mystery of mountains, woods and snow...