Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seasoned French pilot named Maurice Rossi kissed their weeping mechanics goodbye, kissed the astonished field manager, climbed into the Joseph LeBrix. No one at Floyd Bennett Field had ever seen such a takeoff. With the unheard-of load of 1,770 gal. of gasoline, the plane weighed nine tons. Cool-headed Pilot Codos held her to nearly the end of the mile-long runway, then eased her into a gentle climb-100 ft. altitude in about three miles. They were off into the east, to what destination even they knew not. Their sole objective: to fly as far as possible...
...heat stood a solid wall even ... at 10,000 feet, and if we tried a mere peep through windows our eyes were scorched and our heads swam. Of course, to add to the discomfort, it was rough as the dickens. . ." After two scorching days & nights, the weather turned cool and cloudy. They began to enjoy themselves. Near Juba the pilot banged a bell thrice. Game! Fourteen passengers whooped with excitement, flattened their noses against the windows as the ship's nose went down. They saw a herd of about 200 elephants of assorted sizes; then another, then a third...
...lies panting little spirals of smoke in anticipation of the long run past weary towns, isolated farm-houses pallid in the moonlight, black water sleeping in the dim aisles of forests, down through Connecticut, past exclusive suburbs, through Harlem tenaments under Park Avenue into the awakening city, cool in the gray and pink of dawn...
Varves and Summers, As the geologists fanned and mopped themselves in a temperature of 91°, Dr. Ernst Valdemar Antevs, who was born in cool Sweden and now lives in cool Maine, blandly told them they were enjoying a period of cool summers which began 4,500 years ago and would last 6,500 years more. Germany's Dr. Rudolf Spitaler first suspected that the northern hemisphere has warm summers when the eccentricity of earth's orbit swings it close to the sun during the northern summer...
...period while the southern hemisphere takes its turn. Confirmation of this astronomical hypothesis Dr. Antevs had last week in varves: layers of sediments deposited, one layer a year, by melting glaciers. The varves are light-tinted when glacial ice melts fast (hot summers), dark-tinted when it melts slowly (cool summers). Dr. Antevs counted and deciphered 35,000 varves, found a cycle of alternately cool & warm summers in close agreement with the Spitaler calculations...