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...report visibility, ceiling, and rain or snow every 90 minutes. Sometimes Rossby would borrow a pilot and airplane from the Army Air Corps and buzz a remote small town. When all the inhabitants were craning their necks at the glamorous flying machine, he would land in the flattest field, parade into town in an air fan's car and confer with the mayor. The result of this showmanship was usually a group of weather reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man's Milieu | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

North Carolina-born Baptist Billy Graham had arrived in Britain for a three-month, six-night-a-week "crusade" that could conceivably be the flattest flop or the thumpingest success of his 35 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Crusade for Britain | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...also a professor of homiletics (pulpit oratory), he has been around & about colleges all his life. He spent his boyhood on the campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about his father's class, the long hours in chapel, and the fact that, in Hutchins' sophomore year (1916), Ohio State beat Oberlin at football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worst Kind of Troublemaker | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding wall in sight...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

When the Millars entered the lower waters of the Mediterranean, Isabel begged: "Steer where the sea looks flattest." Truant's trip around Italy had often been a series of bucking, racing dashes from port to port in rainstorms and gales, with anchorage snatched wherever it offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Keel Over Europe | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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