Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thunderstorms only. Thunderstorms are tornadoes with horizontal instead of vertical axes. Hail is caused by the up currents of the storm carrying moisture particles to an altitude where they will freeze. As they drop back toward earth the fountainhead of the wind will carry them upward again, add more snow and ice to their structure. Their size is limited only by the power of the wind to carry them upward on successive trips...
Jesse Baker Snow, engineer, assistant chief of construction and design of Manhattan's Holland Vehicular Tunnel Sc.D...
...morning's push to move camp one ice ledge higher. He was typewriting in his tent when: "... I heard the thunderous roar of an unusually large avalanche. Going outside I was horrified to see an enormous portion of the ice wall . . . breaking away and sweeping down the snow slopes below, on which was the climbing party...
...climbers-mere black dots- halt as one man, looking like rigid dolls. Then they dashed frantically to the left. The next moment a rolling cloud of snow preceding the avalanche swept down upon them and they vanished, completely blotted out like insects. "It was the most terrible spectacle I have ever witnessed. The roar grew louder as the clouds of snow swept nearer, moving with incredible velocity, while here and there vicious tongues of ice shot out under the confused jumble of great ice blocks rolling and sliding down." The dead: Chettan, oldtime porter, member of the last three Himalayan...
...judges of the contest were W. B. Snow, Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Boston, Professor A. T. M. deAndria of Boston University, and E. L. Raiche...