Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first is the Seaman's Library asking for unwanted books which might amuse the fog-bound tars. The other is a little chit from the Harvard College Library asking for old cast-offs which might help fill the yawning empty spaces in the stacks and which might amuse the snow-bound graduate students. Instead of having your books sold when you die, why not send them to Widener where they can be disposed of with a nod and a curt "we cannot locate this book now." Unlike the car they won't come back to bother...
...action is taken are at the mercy of the government's staff of specialists and experts of various sorts. Intelligent precautions taken by them, and the necessary quick action from all departments should see a horde of the unemployed on their way to the hills when the approaching snow has melted...
...pheasants shot by 138 hunters, cracks lost 19.4%, average shooters 36%, novices 39.4%. Losses might have been higher if the ground had not been snow-covered, making it easy to spot fallen birds. Quail-shooting is illegal in Iowa, but the researchers got a few figures from Missouri. Three hunters, using fairly well-trained dogs, shot 131 quail, lost 76% of them. Four oldtimers, using first class dogs, lost only two out of 46 birds. Five dogless rabbit-hunters who took shots at quail on the side lost just half of the 24 they...
Died. Kenneth McKenzie, 22, University of Southern California javelin thrower; of freezing and crushing when he, exploring an ice cave with his fiancée, her mother and sister, was caught in a fall of snow & ice from the roof; in Sequoia National Forest, Calif...
...flight around the world. Two years ago with Navigator Harold Gatty, he made an 8½-day record which he now proposed to beat by a generous margin. He was flying alone this time, but with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course to Berlin in the phenomenal time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned...