Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stadium professional concessionaires employ student aid. Proficient student typists work for the University typing bureau, and finally within the University, men are occasionally hired for manual and other labor, such as snow disposal...
...named Layeville, most understanding one of the lot, came to a more agonizing end than the others. Plunging on alone into the Kuenlun Mountains of Tibet, he was trapped in a snowstorm, endured 30 days of unspeakable physical horror before he found peace as he lay dying in the snow, surrounded by the ice-coated corpses of his guides. Sick, decadent La Scaze, a rich Frenchman, voluptuary, onetime author, remained in Aqsu to recover from fever. Inert and drugged through most of his stay, he awakened when he saw a flawlessly beautiful native girl, who died of cholera...
...inevitable seasonal progression last week the North American wheat harvest rolled into the red-gold acres of Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota. Northward away from the declining sun the harvest will sweep until the snow flies around the threshing machines in Canada's Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...
...savings were none the less real, for he took a down-at-heel city and gave it desperately needed equipment, scores of new school buildings, sewage plants and incinerators, $7,000,000 worth of snow-removal equipment, more than double the number of playgrounds and dental clinics for children, new fire equipment that cut fire losses $2,000,000. His Park Commissioner Robert Moses (who replaced five such commissioners, one in each borough) laid out nearly 5,000 acres of new parks and two new municipal bathing beaches. His city law department cleaned up back litigation, much...
...ready-witted patriarch with a slow drawl and snow white hair, Commissioner Davis was a Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt...