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...started with a high pressure area from Alaska, which centered in New England over the weekend, and another high pressure area from the tropic which attracted a low pressure area in their wakes, according to Dr. Charles F. Brook of the Blue Hills Observatory. This low pressure area is responsible for the extreme heat and humidity which have plagued New England this week...
...Brook said that New England weather has become slightly warmer in the last few years. But when asked if New England weather were particularly erratic, he replied, "I guess you have never been to Chicago...
Hurricane Hazel was too far away for Dr. Brook to determine her chances of reaching this area. Even it Hazel were to come, the necessary heat and humidity to keep her going would probably be lacking; and instead of a third hurricane, New England would have to content itself with nothing more than a strong gale and heavy rain...
...pool in the grounds of a former Buddhist temple, gliding over the lake, the delegation seemed oblivious of the landing craft they had seen assembled along Shanghai's Whangpoo River, and of the Peking radio's loud declaration that China intended to liberate Formosa forthwith-and would "brook no U.S. occupation, no U.N. trusteeship, no neutralization...
Harry and Davy played every day, all the same, because they couldn't help it. They threw stones in the brook, and ran after the goats and the hens. But grandfather made them let the goats alone, and as for hens, as Davy said sadly one day, "They won't play." What Harry...