Word: parr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technological millennium that scientists have promised civilization after the war, Professor Albert Eide Parr, director of the American Museum of Natural History, believes that at last something can be done about the weather. He thinks that cities can be planned with built-in climate control...
Addressing the graduating class at University of Chicago's Institute of Meteorology, Professor Parr observed indignantly that scientists have done practically nothing about the weather. "Our relations to the forces of weather and climate," said he, "are still in the most primitive cultural stage...
...Speakers who have addressed the Council and answered open-forum questions resemble a walking Who's Who of international affairs -China's Dr. Hu Shih, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, former Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew, Peru's Dr. Alberto Arca-Parró, a host of others...
Their targets were two ships lying side by side in Navarino Bay, laden with supplies for Rommel. The lead planes were almost in position. Grant Parr of the New York Times "crouched in a niche just behind the forward cabin, leaning out over the open bomb bay." It was deathly cold, but he was too excited to notice. "With a slight jar our bombs fell away, seemingly far wide of their mark. Then momentum and wind drift whipped them in toward the transports like a fast curve breaking over the plate...
...PARR Evesham, Worcestershire England...