Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India in the 7th Century, over torrential rivers and through snow-swept passes of the Himalayas, the Tibetans adopted their faith-Lamaism. A powerful hierarchy grew up, with lamas (monks), priests, metropolitans, abbots, hutukhtus (saints). With a graded priesthood and a liturgy which included vestments, chants and prayers, Lamaism came to resemble a caricatured Catholicism, remembered perhaps from the teachings of wandering heretic...
...fire, which occurred during a raging snow-storm, started during a meeting of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts. The configuration, according to a letter from Margaret, the daughter of President Edwand Holyoke, began in a beam under the hearth in the library. The Governor and many of the Court assisted in extinguishing the fire, as did the President, who fought his way through five-foot drifts of snow clad only in his house clothes, to reach...
...Party except as a dupe, and the Dutchman in his startling but sane moments confessed to having fired the Reichstag quite unaided by any of the other defendants, and since the main objective of the trial is to prove the guilt of the Reds and the white-as-driven-snow innocence of the Nazis, it is necessary to have one self-declared Communist at any rate up for high treason in danger of his life under a law passed after the crime had been committed...
...with the Invisible Man if the drug which made him invisible had not also made him insane; and so, after becoming a wrecker of trains and a murderer, he is finally shot dead in his tracks as he emerges from a barn into a virgin coat of newly fallen snow...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...