Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory...
...forecast was the outcome of an elaborate forecasting service which Dr. C. F. Brooks, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory of Harvard, had arranged for the occasion...
...spite of the abnormally difficult situation created by the rapidly advancing tropical cyclone, the forecast was completely verified as at Blue Hill, a much more exposed location than Cambridge, the intermittent rain was 0.08 inch by 12:30 p.m., and at the Boston Airport station of the U. S. Weather Bureau a total of 0.06 inch was recorded by 1 p.m. At the end of the ceremony President Conant congratulated Dr. Brooks for the accuracy of the forecast obtained from Blue Hill, which made it possible to hold the exercises out of doors with a minor degree of inconvenience...
...Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory...
...forecast was verified to the letter: the rainfall was intermittent: it was light, the amount at Blue Hill was only 0.08 inch up to 12:30. I was present throughout the exercises, wearing an academic gown but no raincoat or other protection, and did not get wet through...