Word: snows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...
...pictures were up to those on home receivers, except for "snow" in the Washington station and for brief blankouts on stretches of track beyond the range of transmitters. Reporters appeared less interested in the experiment than in the televised World Series game. A.P.'s Arthur Edson noted that, technically, reception "was surprisingly good," but complained that he had missed most of an inning because FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock was posing for news pictures in front of the screen. The New York Star's Ernest Barcella was chiefly concerned about what had happened to Warren Spahn: "He was pitching...
Skiing for Harvard in intercollegiate competition is recognized by the H.A.A. as a varsity sport. Though the team has not a coach as yet, it will start practicing as soon as the snow falls, using headquarters at the Ski Club's cabin in Pinkham Notch...
...weather was wonderful almost everywhere. Skyscraper, silo and factory stack stood sharply against October's bright blue sky. Nights held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass. Lakes lay dark and still and the sound of an ax or a distant locomotive carried for miles on the tranquil...
...removal of obstacles for fire engines is obviously not the answer; nor is the argument for snow removal entirely plausible. The authorities should give some completely acceptable explanation, for if the current campaign builds up to all its promised thoroughness, students faced with paying tribute to garage-owners are going to feel like turning their cars in to City Hall--at the rate of about 50 miles an hour...