Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear but excitingly husky." With this description I beg to differ, having heard Miss Millay on her trip to Dallas several years ago and also several times over the radio....I recall the sweet clear soprano of her speaking voice distinctly. In her lines from The Buck in the Snow especially, her voice registered high treble. In fact, to me, it was "excitingly soprano...
...story of a 19th Century man who went to sleep and woke up in the year 2000 and was shown what the world was like then. This marvelous book described radio and television. It told of giant umbrellas to spread over whole cities to keep off rain and snow. But its chief interest was that it told how poverty had been abolished, how private industry had been taken over by a state syndicate, how everybody worked to produce plenty of goods for everybody else. Bellamy also had an idea how the unemployed could be put to work making goods...
...November 1911 Scott started south from winter quarters on Cape Evans with dogs, ponies, sledges. On the way the ponies were killed to feed men and dogs. Phenomenally good weather was soon followed by blizzards. Deep snow held the party in a soft vise. On Dec. 14 Scott wrote, "We are just starting our march with no very hopeful outlook." That same day the famed Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, traveling fast by a different route, became the first man to reach the South Pole...
...four companions down. Evans collapsed, lost his mind, died. One day Oates said, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He never came back. His sacrifice was in vain. In November 1912, a searching party found Scott's tent, half buried in snow, a few miles from the last route camp. The three bodies were in their sleeping bags...
...named John David Brock. He learned to fly in 1922, has owned a plane ever since. In the autumn of 1929 he observed in his logbook that he had missed only eleven days' flying that year. For fun, he decided to try flying every day. In rain, shine, snow and fog, he went up daily for a 15-minute spin. Even when sub-zero weather grounded the airmail Dr. Brock took off. In dead of winter snowplows cleared runways for him. When he came down ice was chopped from his wings...