Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such limitations as these are thoughtfully recognized by the legislators in Washington, a perfectly rational and practical system of crop insurance appears possible. There is every cause for the desirability of stabilizing farm buying power in this way, and the heartening of farmers through protection against hail, drought and grasshoppers...
...Suvoroff, Rozhestvensky's flagship, was soon put out of action. The hail of shell-splinters flying into the conning tower thrice wounded Rozhestvensky. Soon no one knew who was in command of the Russian fleet. All that could be done was to follow the ship ahead, until it sank or fell out of line, turning in helpless circles. By nightfall (the action began at 2 p. m.) the Russians were trying only to escape. Till midnight they were harried by torpedo attacks. Next morning brought the main Japanese fleet again to mop up the survivors. By then most...
...reported near Los Angeles, of 12° in the Imperial Valley. Los Angeles awoke under a pall of smoke from millions of smudges. It was so dark that lights were burned till afternoon. San Diego had its first snowfall in history (the Government meteorologist described it as "soft hail"). A second night of low temperatures followed. Traffic crawled and tangled on the darkened roads, while hundreds of oil trucks were given the right of way, carrying fuel to the smudges. All this meant industrial tragedy to California's citrus fruit industry (save for oil, the biggest business...
...many to whom he was an impersonal monarch of a distant country he is now enshrined in our hearts with a respect that is akin to worship. No doubt the redoubtable Stanley Baldwin could have condoned a few "backdoor indiscretions." Hail noble Prince, for being true to your principles, the greatest gentleman of them all. The world salutes...
...trial, did a self-caricature entitled Art Young on Trial for His Life which was later bid for by the prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never suffered from the things which have made George Grosz hail with delight his bourgeois cottage and his refrigerator. Still hale & hearty. Artist Young's private life is consciously bohemian and irregular and he is devoid of real hatred. Typical of his line, his satire and his personality is his drawing of himself lecturing before a woefully empty hall. One bored listener...