Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street in the vicinity of the Square. Essentially, easy winter walking depends upon a good neighbor policy of shoveling sidewalks immediately after a snowfall. In chilly New England a quick job in this respect alone can prevent the formation of an icy coating which will remain until the thaw. But the simple civic act of shoveling itself does not come readily. It is a variation on the old theme of everyone talking about the weather but no one doing anything about it even when it's but three feet away...
...bulletins pouring into Nanking continued bad. The Communists were driving a corridor through fertile Shantung; Communist divisions, held up by this month's thaw and mud, were massing around Mukden for a spring offensive...
...Spring Thaw. The Bureau of the Census reported that March employment, helped by spring weather, showed an increase all around. Nonagricultural jobs reached 50,482,000-up 114,000 over February and 1,662,000 over the same period last year. Farm jobs totaled 6,847,000-up 76,000 over February. But U.S. employment was still down 2,750,000 from last year's July peak...
...Lait's own bonus-winning lead on a story about Murderer Harry Thaw's escape from a New York insane asylum, and his cross-country flight in the summer sun: "Harry Thaw arrived in Chicago last night, brown...
Cambridge Police Chief John R. King lifted the ban yesterday which had closed 19 streets in the Cambridge-Somerville area to parking since last Wednesday. The recent three-day thaw has opened the thoroughfares to two-way traffic again...