Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern California got relief from its worst drought in 70 years. After 47 clear, dry days, heavy rain swept the state from Santa Barbara to the Imperial Valley...
Last week, at 76, Orville suffered a heart attack. Lung congestion developed. Late one night, under an oxygen tent in the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, death came to Orville Wright, begetter...
Some scientists' interest in cancer is more than scientific. Quiet, balding Pathologist Albert M. Harris was one of those. Day after day he worked in the laboratory of the Sioux Valley Hospital at Sioux Falls, S.Dak. His father, also a physician, had had cancer. Young Dr. Harris was looking for a quick and sure test for the disease...
...Swiss Alps this week, on the slopes of the highest (6,000 feet) major valley in Europe, the snow lay five feet deep. It was dry and powdery on top, packed solid beneath, ideal for skiing. Above towered the two mountain giants, Languard and Julier, up to their waists in dark green firs. On a terrace, its streets white-carpeted with snow, lay the famed resort town of St. Moritz, a chockablock jumble of low, square houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz...
Paleontologists have long known that the tree existed in prehistoric times, but not until 1946 were any living specimens found. Early that year explorers discovered three metasequoias in a remote valley of central China...