Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summary: HARVARD 1933 M.I.T. 1933 Fitch, g. g., Mayer Vandermark, r.f.b. r.f.b. Mohr Hasgood, l.f.b. l.f.b., Hans Denison, r.h.b. r.h.b., Conway, Keasler Waters, Heard, Crossman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Snow Martin, l.h.b. l.h.b. Bateman Lindsey, r.o.f. r.o.f., Flint Eaton, r.i.f. r.i.f., Way Gallaway, c.f. c.f., Sinkweic Schumacher, l.i.f. l.i.f., Thumm, McCormack Williams, l.o.f. l.o.f., Handley...
...deeply towards the South Pole, was Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd and his large party. They were breaking out of their eight months' hibernation. Dog sledges had started making caches for way stations along his route to the Pole. His two planes had endured the winter well in their snow houses. Mechanics were going over them. The men were working hard but they had a holiday coming to them. On Oct. 25 they would pause to celebrate Commander Byrd's 41 st birthday...
...Catalina Island, baseball (Chicago ''Cubs''), gum and the Wrigley Building, is stout, bluff, good-natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his shoes and snow on the ground, and spent his last dime for the "Biggest Bowl of Bean Soup in Chicago." Mr. Wrigley will be 68 on the last day of the present month...
...week's end Western Air Express Pilot George K. Rice saw, high up in the forests on Mt. Taylor, 11,289-ft. extinct volcano on the Continental Divide, midway between Albuquerque and Gallup, what seemed small patches of snow. He flew low. In the sunlight, midst trees, gleamed pieces of duralumin. In Pilot Rice's words: "Then we saw the left wing of the plane where it had been cut off by striking a tree. The wing was turned upside down and we could read the [license] numbers 9649. The balance of the plane we saw about...
...Bishop of Utah and a specially appointed Commission of the House of Bishops met in a house in Vandeventer Place, St. Louis. Outside moaned the wind, snow flurried in the streets. The Commission sat alone. Bishop Jones was in an-other room but the Commission knew they might speak to him "whenever occasion demanded." They wrote answers to a series of questions which Bishop Jones, silent in the other room, had submitted to them...