Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lack of snow, the 14-kilometre cross country race which the Harvard skiing team was scheduled to enter at the Dartmouth Carnival yesterday afternoon had to be postponed. It will probably be run in Vermont on Saturday or Sunday at the same time with the slalom and downhill races...
...just as other people keep cows is ridiculous. Reindeer are still "wild"; the animals migrate regularly to their winter and summer feeding grounds, without asking anyone's permission, and because Laplanders live entirely upon reindeer, they have become nomads of necessity. Reindeer . . . feed themselves; and even when the snow is three feet deep, the animals dig holes in the snow and can be seen eating reindeer moss, standing on their heads with only their wagging tails visible...
First issue of D S preserves a careful balance between business and frivolity. Cover design, by Truck Driver Otto Ernst, is a chaste night scene in water color showing impressive snow plows and soldierly men clearing the drifts from around Washington Arch...
...foreword by plump Dr. William Schroeder Jr., chairman of the sanitary commission and sponsor of D S. The engineer in charge of sewage disposal writes learnedly of progress on the unfinished new disposal plant. There is a detailed resume of the work of removing last December's snow, which cost the City "approximately $1,367,251.55." Auditor Harry R. Langdon quotes excerpts from musty official records of the appointment of a public scavenger of 1701 at $40 a year. Two pages are devoted to the department's Holy Name Society, two more to routine department news. Remainder...
Current influenza is much milder than the devastating disease of 1918. Epidemiologists have been unable to discern rhythm or reason to these surges. In England the Press, having noted an unseasonable amount of rain, fog and snow over North Europe, blames raw weather...