Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contains 21 articles on every phase of skiing by the world's leading authorities. It contains nine reproductions of paintings in full color and 250 photographs. Some of the authors, notably Richard Durrance, Arnold Lunn, Charles Proctor and Birger Ruud, will be skiing in the U. S. this winter...
Last week, all activities in the skiing world were pointed up when a dozen European experts, imported to teach U. S. skiers, demonstrated their skill at Boston's third annual indoor Winter Sports Show, and railroads throughout the nation simultaneously announced the schedules of this season's ski trains...
Briefly the snow problem consists of an inability to get rid of the snow in the winter and an inability to find any in the spring. Now begins the time of clogged streets and downed telephone wires. All too soon come the days of flood followed by those of drought...
Fascination of the problem lies in the fact that for its solution one must not necessarily look to any specialized group. As it concerns everybody, so everybody may try his hand at solving it. The aforementioned man of Utah, who wants to put nozzles in streams that the winter torrents may diffuse and freeze, is not the only man from whom the nation may expect to hear during the next months...
...planted, the spring problem has already been settled in its general aspects. The disposal question presents a more pressing demand both because snow is now upon the country, and because nobody has ever invented a machine or discovered a method of quickly removing the greatest natural damager of winter intercourse...