Word: snowstorms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit went 56 bodies, where Governor Frederick W. Green received them in an arctic snowstorm; accorded them a state funeral. Others were scattered among a half-dozen Mid-West cities; four went to Arlington...
...shade stronger than Joyce's. Syracuse 6. Columbia 0. By beating Muhlenberg 7-0, Western Maryland became the U. S. team that has won the most (ten), though not the hardest games. Sticking to straight football, West Virginia veered round and thumped past Washington & Jefferson in a snowstorm, 6 to 0. Watched by a bored crowd too cold to cheer, Colgate's backs spun out swift variations of a reverse play that Brown could never understand. Colgate 32, Brown...
...Company post in Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. To its frozen remoteness eight bearded, twitching men tottered. Their leader, Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze...
...McGinn was carrying the air mail from Cleveland to Chicago. He ran into a snowstorm and a 50 m. p. h. gale near Huron, Ohio, lost control of his plane. It fell on an apple tree, caromed into a barn owned by an undertaker. Pilot McGinn was decapitated as he was thrown from the cockpit. The barn, the plane and the mail bags burned quickly in the cold, whistling night...
Last week Babette 1'Alpiniste was given up for lost, having become separated from her party during an unexpected snowstorm...