Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard will be lucky if it has shells in use two weeks from today, although the Leviathan and a barge or two will probably be on the water next Wednesday. Shells can not be used, even after the ice breaks up, until the floating cakes and debris following the thaw have disappeared...
...weather forecast for today is increasing cloudiness, followed by snow in the late afternoon and night, with slowly rising temperatures in southern New England. This snow should give a good powder surface so that skiers would not have to navigate on the hard crust caused by the thaw...
When the ruts have been well-formed, a thaw is provided sufficient to coat them and the surface with glare ice. Sand is a useful article whose virtues seem to have been ignored in this crisis; the qualities of sand are admirable, not only on icy streets but on icy sidewalks; not all the sidewalks have been sanded, and thrills await the traveller on the more remote byways. Quick snow removal, and a liberal application of sand, would make progress afoot and awheel less picturesque, but more efficient...
...your tent, Pa. It's been pretty chilly lately but I think you'll be all right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will build a fire in it and if the water freezes in your bucket you can thaw it out enough to shave." "That's fine," declared the colonel enthusiastically. "Eighty per cent of my service was spent under canvas and I don't see much of it on this White House assignment...
...lines. Climbing over piles of corpses, she filed an exclusive story, organized an emergency hospital, got Publisher Hearst to send relief trains. Another time, disguised as a Salvation Army lass, she visited the "lowest dives" of the Barbary Coast, wrote a stirring series on vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary, later turned out a 54,000-word biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst in twelve days...