Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snow, sleet and bitterly cold winds drove across most of Europe, blanketed much of Dear Old England in snow-so beloved by Queen Victoria...
...window of the general store at Hanover, where Shea works his way through college by waiting at an eating club, a placard announced his victory. His time-43.4 sec.-equalled the Olympic record. The 5,000-meter race was run off much more slowly in a slight flurry of snow. When Irving Jaffee of New York won, after outmaneuvering the Norwegian champion Ivar Ballangrud, the U. S. team had 29 points, more than its total in the Winter Olympic games of 1924. Next day, Shea won the 1,500-meter race, spurting at the start of the last...
...Sunday evening was a little slow and quite flavorless for certain blithe spirits. A little group of five fortified itself with frequent passings of the bottle and then took niblicks, spades, and pickaxes and went out looking for the fraternity snow statuary. Men had put hours of devoted effort into creating fragile dazzling white figures, with every shading of form, illumination and position carefully planned to create an effect of maximum beauty. That meant nothing to the forthright five; they smashed them all: Theta Chi's lovely Snow Girl, the majestic statue of Elcazar on the Green...
...story of that "quaint old Down East fishing village, full of quaint old interesting characters and quaint old interesting furniture and fashionable summer people," sends the Masseys with their daughters, Enid and Clarissa, to Mary's Neck. Their first mistake is to arrive in April, with the snow still flying. The interval before the arrival of the summer colonists they fill in with hiring native help, buying and remodeling their cottage, antiquing, motorboating...
DURING the last four years a vast change has come over New England. Four years ago the snow fell, crusted and melted on many an excellent hill near Boston without a single ski having broken its surface. Skiing was a sport for fools or experts. There evidently was no way in which a man in the first category could progress to the second. A few of us kept persistently at it, but learning came slowly. The few skiing manuals on hand were written in French of Norwegian and the latter technique is next to impossible to master without personal instruction...