Word: squall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it is embarrassing. When the President receives the official invitations from the World Court members, he cannot accept them in their altered form without consulting the Senate, neither can he pigeonhole them after politely thanking Europe, All of which means that there will probably be another World Court squall in the Senate within the. next two years. Already the Senatorial "diehards" arid irreconcilables, who unsuccessfully fumed against the Court last winter, are whetting their axes for a new battle...
...April 12, LETTERS) accuses us married workers of lack of respectability, I'd like to commit mayhem on her. Poor, coddled hausfrau! Perhaps a man stupid enough to marry such a nixnox has been superseded over his rut by an alert married woman worker. Yet his "missus" need not squall...
...been lost; but all hands were well and happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings of the Grenfell Mission loomed on the shore of Battle Harbor. After a brief stop there, the pilgrims pushed off on their journey's last leg for Wiscasset, Me., bringing with them no news of a new continent below the Pole, but an exotic story...
...with the characteristic determination of the Bull Dog refused to accept the odium of defeat and struggled on to a tied score at 4-4, with the outcome of the match between Whitbeck and Ingraham and Jones and Watson still in the air at a set apiece. A sudden squall of rain, when the players were about to start their final set, ended all thought of further play, and the decision was reserved for the Intercollegiates at Philadelphia...
Mummert's tiny monoplane proved as unlucky as Barbot's. On a trial flight near Roosevelt Field, L. I., a squall flung the plane against a telegraph pole, smashing the landing gear and wings and badly injuring the pilot, Captain Brooke L. Pearson...