Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armistice came, they found themselves frozen in for the winter. In January, with the temperature 30° below zero, the Red Army assaulted them, drove them back. The wounded died from exposure. Machine guns would work only from heated blockhouses. A bare hand touching metal was seared as by fire. Snow and continual darkness fought for the enemy. On March 30 occurred the "mutiny" of Company I of the 339th Infantry. So great was the demoralization of all troops that withdrawal was ordered with the first thaw late...
...Widener Library. Through these spaces move the students the faculty sauntering past squirrels who live by a wisdom of their own in this colossus of learning. In winter boardwalks are put down and fur coated the young men go their open galoshes clattering above the crunch of rubber on snow...
...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...year's first snow stimulated numerous midshipmen. Navy 30, West Va. Wesleyan...
Autumn is gone, the snow is here. The Vagabond can rake over the fallen leaves of the past season only with mixed emotions. If he has been regular in the performance of his duty in attendance at lectures, if those lectures have shown with their usual degree of luster, he has exhausted the store of his accomplishments. The full blossomed lot of pleasure has not been his during this last stretch of Saturdays. His coup detat, the carefully laid scheme to fly to Michigan, having been uncovered by the Yellow Press, he can reckon little for the credit side...