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Word: undersnow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Movies. By oldtime standards, the camp was a plush resort. Air-dropped supplies floated down regularly. There was plenty of room for everyone in the huts, which were connected by undersnow tunnels. The men ran movies three times a week, exulted in the talents of their cook. About once a week they talked by radiotelephone to their families. Occasionally, some of them got tired of hearing certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down a lengthy questionnaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life in the Deep Freeze | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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