Word: hille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles F. Brooks, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, attributed the freak weather to a current of tropical air flowing north from the Gulf Stream. He reported a maximum wind velocity of 71 miles an hour at the Observatory...
Harvard's pioneer experimentation with automatic radio meteorograph balloons, for upper air soundings, after three years has resulted in widespread use of such instruments for regular weather observations, Professor Charles F. Brooks, director of the Blue Hill Observatory, of Harvard, said yesterday in his annual report...
...Capitol Hill, two deans of the Senate, Lewis of Illinois and Borah of Idaho, arose to support this view. They were joined by rowdy Bob Reynolds of North Carolina, who exclaimed: "We should wash behind our ears before telling other nations of the world to take a bath...
When General Juan Yague's troops reached the 600-foot-high hill of Montjuich commanding Barcelona's harbor they saw a white flag flying from the fortress. When General Garcia Valino's soldiers climbed the summit of Tibidabo, on the west, and looked down upon the city gleaming in brilliant sunshine, they saw white sheets, towels and Rebel red & gold bunting flying from windows and housetops...
...occasional severed limbs. But at two o'clock sharp, the tranqull ice is transformed into what resembles a subway rush in the 7th Avenue subway when a hundred or so shabbily dressed people with razor-like skates swarm over the boards-the Rainbow Division going over the top at Hill 22. After a general 15-minute melee, called "warm-up time", a whistle is blown and the first game is about to begin. For purposes of illustration, let us say, between Winthrop and Lowell...