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Cutting through the icy rain and sleet to Newell boathouse in the dusk yesterday afternoon the University 150-pound crews completed their last practice before the crews are put into final shape for the race with Kent on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLEET CHILLS 150'S IN LAST INFORMAL GRIND | 3/29/1932 | See Source »

...Snow, sleet and bitterly cold winds drove across most of Europe, blanketed much of Dear Old England in snow-so beloved by Queen Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Brains | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...voyages to little America, her ice-scarred bow and hull give ample evidence of the clutching, ripping fingers of the polar giants that tried to hold the ship back; but there is no visible proof today of the gales she outrode or the times she struggled under tons of sleet and frozen spray that weighted her rail to the water's edge and nearly sank her. So the visitor who views the "City of New York" today sees only a proud, old, ship, a member of a fast-vanishing generation of square-riggers that curled the sea away from their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Byrd's Ship, on Inspection Tour, Offers Intimate Glimpse of Living in Antarctic | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

...took off for Newark. Two others headed for Pittsburgh. One of these, carrying five girls, got only 20 mi. west of Baltimore's Logan Field when low clouds turned it back. The pilot of the other Pittsburgh-bound ship, with three girls, lost his way in snow and sleet, was thrice forced down in the farmlands of Pennsylvania. Instead of a two-hour flight, the Goucher girls spent a long, cold day, arrived at Pittsburgh next morning by train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...president of the line; Earl Wadsworth, superintendent of airmail; Amelia Earhart. Cargo was eight sacks of mail. Well before noon the vanguard plane was past Camden (Philadelphia's airport of entry) and into the Alleghenies via Harrisburg. Here the pilots watched out for "dirty stuff," the fog, snow & sleet that had harassed Chairman of the Technical Committee Charles Augustus Lindbergh on his inspection tour two days prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Big Trails | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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