Word: squall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar drill on defensive fundamentals is scheduled for today, but of considerably less intensity. Tomorrow the second open practice will be held in the Stadium immediately following the practice of the Cadets. The Army squall arrives tonight and will go immediately to the Helment Country Club. While the Cadel corpe will not arrive until Saturday morning. They will march to the Studium from 1.15 to 1.35 o'clock preceeding the game...
...opera in Detroit. Wronski made his first attempt as a producer in 1923 with an outdoor Aïda in the University Stadium. That night it was so hot that the grease paint streamed down the singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful to the stage directions, Wronski had wanted horses for the second act, engaged them with their drivers from a local coal company called Pittman & Dean. The horses were reasonably patient, but the drivers took...
...aerial Mass. He ended the service with thanks to "God at the helm." Three icebergs were spotted in the afternoon. As the ship passed through the cold air above them, its electric radiators were switched on. That night, after most passengers were asleep, the Hindenburg ran through a severe squall, held so steady no one was awakened...
Last week off San Miguel Island, a heavy squall struck the Bounty, swept away a water tank support, swamped the barge, spilled 25 technicians into the water. Assistant Director James Havens, in charge of the location unit, described how a cameraman named Glenn Strong drowned in the confusion that followed: "Strong went back to retrieve his camera which was on a superstructure. The superstructure collapsed, carrying him into the water with two others. His companions swam to safety. Strong clung to some timber for a time. But in the excitement, no one saw him go down...
...rocky northern coast of Corsica sat Playwright Noel Coward, sipping a drink, waiting for his chartered yacht Mairi to pick him up. Two days before a Mediterranean squall had sent him scurrying ashore to shelter. As the storm abated he saw Mairi nose in toward shallow water, buckle up on a rock, spill her crew into the sea. Yachtsman Coward started to hike. Twenty miles down the coast he walked into the village of Ile Rousse, told his plight to a skeptical hotelkeeper, who cabled London. When Coward got back to the wreck he waded in to salvage what...