Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great flakes Moscow's first heavy snow of the season was softly falling. Red Army divisions, snug in their ankle-length winter overcoats and turnip helmets, filled the vast Red Square. All Moscow turned out to see who would bear the ashes of Comrade Katayama to their niche in the Kremlin wall. Millions of eyes fastened on a swart, powerfully built man in a long greatcoat who strode bareheaded through the snowstorm: Chief Pallbearer Josef Stalin...
...whom she is teaching to fly. When he emerges from the mirror, the young man finds himself transformed into a statue above a courtyard where children are fighting with snowballs. Snowballs eventually smash the young man in his statuary form. Dressed in evening clothes, at a table in the snow, he plays cards with the young lady who advised him to walk through the mirror, no longer marble now but a solemn and equivocal Muse. A polite audience chuckles at the game from the balconies of the courtyard. When the young man tries to cheat and fails, he puts...
Michigan State drove down a snow-sogged field to Carnegie Tech's 1-yd. line. Carnegie fought back to Michigan State's 1-yd. line. Michigan tried to kick a field goal, missed. So did Carnegie...
...Post sent young Brian Untiedt to distract Herbert Hoover in his most crucial White House days. When Silverton, a mountain hamlet near Denver, was cut off from the world by a hundred feet of snow, Bonfils sent an airplane which circled slowly above the outcasts, and then dropped a bag containing five hundred copies of the Denver Post. The domination of the Post, however, was soon challenged by the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, and the most spectacular of advertising wars began. The Post offered a gallon of gasoline, at twenty two cents, for each want ad, the News offered...
Before an onslaught of wettish snow and raw wind, a little group of interested spectators, who had turned out to watch the Winthrop-Adams and Eliot-Leverett interhouse games, dwindled slowly as the teams made a fast start, but soon settled down into a steady grind, during which few scores were made...