Word: raining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British doctors, approving heartily of Commissioner Lansbury's efforts to arrange for sun bathing, wondered how he would arrange for the sun. London is as far north as Labrador. In 1927 there were but 183 London days in which less than .01 inches of rain fell...
Stop and ask yourself how much you really know about the weather. Do you know what would justify an official forecast of rain? do you know why the wind blows? have you any idea what a cyclone is or what causes a tornado? It is this type of thing which is hidden behind the more or less baffling heading of "Meteorology" and which in reality is more closely connected with our everyday life than any other science...
Exclaimed Mr. Fokker: "My ship is not a lump of sugar. It won't melt in the rain." In flight the huge ship showed stability, maneuverability. Universal Air Lines ordered the plane and four replicas for its proposed day-&-night transcontinental service...
Wallowing toward Savannah, Ga., from Germany, the steamer Coldwater met rain-squalls and a lowering sky some 400 miles off the Virginia Capes one night last week. When the man on the morning watch (4 a.m. to 8 a.m.) took his post he had a dirty murk to peer into. It was not the kind of night that makes men love the sea, but soon the lookout heard something that made him glad he was on a ship. Coming closer, droning deep amid the seethe and hiss of the waves, he heard an airplane's motor. Then...
...name to "Nidaros" (pronounced Nee-dar-oss)?effective Jan. 1, 1930. To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant. Soon 25,000 irate citizens (nearly half Trondhjem's population) mass-met under a lowering sky, furiously handclapped speeches of indignation as rain began to patter, signed under umbrellas a potent petition of protest. On dispersing to their homes they expressed their feelings further by breaking several Trondhjem windows...