Word: snowstorms
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Luke is seen beside the body of a dead game warden, flees, and wanders all night in a driving snowstorm. When he is taken in by a farm woman who catches him stealing the bran mash she has set out for her chickens he falls into a sickness, later works for a harsh Methodist parson whose daughter he marries, and from then on concerns himself with the gradual accumulation of wealth as a small farmer...
...Manhattan, Mrs. Frances Bell, 76, telephoned the police that her son Thomas, truckdriver. widower and father of one, had put her out in a snowstorm...
...while fifteen other men with cards of 90 or less got into the match play. In the semi-finals, Lynford Lardner, Jr. '36 will play Norman Mendleson '38, and Thomas Boardman '36 will pit himself against Arvin N. Pierce '38. Last year the final match was played in a snowstorm, Alan Pattee, a Freshman, being returned the winner...
...showers have regularly come about November 14 each year, with large displays at 33-year intervals. Intense storms were seen in 1799 and 1833, and one observer in 1866 said that the shower was "as thick as a Christmas snowstorm." But in 1899 the display was much diminished, and astronomers have been watching during the last 2 years to see whether the earlier intensity will recur...
Over most of the U. S. the weather made front-page news last week. A violent storm in Maine washed away seedlings and demolished fruit trees. A deluge after long rains ruined much cotton around Augusta. Ga. A snowstorm whipped the Idaho highlands. A severe frost struck the district around Lancaster, Ohio. A hail storm near Marathon, Tex. pelted to death 1,000 sheep...