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...would crush the hulls of ships in port. A million tons of radioactive water thrown into the air would smash nearby piers and warehouses, splash on others farther away, making them unapproachable for weeks or months. A wind-borne mist laden with deadly radioactive particles would threaten survivors to leeward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ABCs | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...steaming summer evening, many U.S. music lovers would as soon sit down to leeward of an elephant as go to a hot & heavy grand opera. Cincinnati's indefatigable music lovers, however, like to do both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zoopera | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Yale took first in the two-day regatta with 144 points, thereby qualifying along with Brown for the National Championships. The races were over a three-quarter mile windward-leeward course, and sailing conditions were almost ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Take Third in College Championship | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Wells & Chains. "I wouldn't," beefy bachelor Baldwin once said in explanation of his single state, "bring a child into a capitalist world, and I like children, too." As Governor of the West Indies' Leeward Islands (pop. 109,000), the pipe-smoking scion of the pipe-smoking symbol of the Conservative Party seemed determined to erase all trace of capitalism from his Caribbean domain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sympathetic Governor | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered to take a plane home "to discuss Leeward's problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sympathetic Governor | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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