Word: squall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gothenburg, Sweden, six-metre boats of seven nations began a series for the Scandinavian Gold Cup. The first day was so calm that the winner took more than the limit of four hours for the course, and the race had to be sailed over. This time a terrific squall delayed the start. Sweden got the best start; the Dutch boat blanketed the U. S. Ripple and Sweden stayed in front. In the third race the Ripple made a long beat to port while the Swedish yacht was off to starboard, came round the first buoy on the second round well...
...spray and mist rising in clouds from where its tail lashed the sea. Yet its writhing edges were clean-cut as a broad band of black ribbon. ... It was exactly seven minutes from the time the spout first formed until it faded into the black depths of the moving squall...
...swing the bottle hard, and did, but the Weetamoe stuck. She had been built on the ways and the wood had soaked up some of the grease. For two hours workmen in the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R. I. hammered, sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home, deferred the launching for two days. Finally afloat, the Weetamoe looked like a long-necked bird. Her line of keel, almost straight from the heel of the sternpost to the fore-end of the water line, gives...
...sudden squall in the turbulent Polish Sejm (Parliament) flung out Kasimir Bartel as Prime Minister of Poland last week. Professor Juljan Szymanski, amiable oculist-editor, strove valiantly to form another Cabinet, at the request of President Ignacy Moscicki. The proceedings infuriated Poland's Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, whose official position is merely that of Minister...