Word: cold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their arrival at South Station was preceded by a throng of reporters, anxious to interview the unusual arrival. The snake, however, was not put on exhibition for fear of the cold, but was rushed immediately to the Museum. There he will be carefully entertained as is the custom with visiting snakes...
Despite bad weather, yield-per-acre was 3% above average this year, although some 10,000,000 acres of winter wheat were frost-killed and a cold, wet June hampered reseeding...
...answer the above question Prime Minister Benito Mussolini moved last week with cold and drastic vigor. In a circular letter received by each Italian podesta (mayor) the Dictator commanded: "Decrowd your city...
...gloriously won, in spite of tactical errors at Shiloh, brutal human waste at Cold Harbor, Grant was unfortunately awarded the presidency. He knew nothing about politics or human character, neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...
...wobbling that the Earth goes through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather. Tremendous winds blow there, influencing the weather of the entire Earth. Cold ocean currents start there, crawl along the ocean floors to the North Pole where they curve upward to cool the relatively warm North Polar waters. Whatever in the Antarctic regions can be seen, measured and studied by the expedition's staff, that will be done...