Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of other And Out trades that have horned in for their share of the profits, the number of remarkable people that engage in it, and the number of north country inhabitants that have cut the wood off their slopes--except the stumps--and who pray for snow with which ton lure the city slickers makes it doubtful. In its position in the national economy skiing may well be held a phenomenon comparable to mah jong, mumbledy-peg, or peewee golf...
These were the sectors where the worst of the flood had passed. Downstream, men were still struggling too excitedly to begin counting their rosary of grief. Evansville, Ind., part of which is perched on a snow-covered bluff, looked down on a yellow sea where its business district and part of its residential district had been. There Paul Schmidt, chairman of the local Red Cross, got a lift from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture...
Goggled against the stinging snow and wind that burn your face, you sit tense in a narrow cockpit, legs braced, toes hooked under a crossbar. The tiller jerks and trembles in your hands, intensifying your sensation of speed. A few inches beneath you is the ice, now white and granular, now slick as black glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved...
...syth year, but Dartmouth's party is the foremost U. S. wintersports meeting. Last week Dartmouth was worried, for still holding was the balmy weather which had ruined half the winter for more than 70,000 ski addicts on the Eastern seaboard, forced cancellation of snow trains, hit the purses of hundreds of winter inn-owners throughout the White, Green, and Adirondack Mountains. Even the world snowshoe championships at Ottawa Jan. 30 had to be run on snowless ground. Dartmouth feared it would have to import snow for its ski-jumping. But oldsters could remember no year in which...
...clock last night the Boston Weather Bureau informed the CRIMSON that skiing conditions are the best of the winter. Prospects are for more snow and sub-freezing temperature...