Word: squall
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...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...
Owing to delays in the first three events of the regatta the race with Cornell did not start until 5.07 o'clock. The weather conditions were fair. The tide was high and there was little current. A head wind, which at times increased to a squall, was blowing from the Boston side of the river. The crews rowed over the mile and seven-eighths course from the Union Boat Club to the Longwood bridge...
...geological conference last evening, Professor Ward read a paper on "Recent Additions to the "Teaching Collection in Meteorology." The paper was illustrated by stereopticon slides, showing new pictures of a tornado funnel cloud, squall clouds, and wave clouds. Professor Ward also exhibited some photographic enlargements of snow crystals and hailstones. Mr. Eustis gave a paper descriptive of the geological structures of the iron mines on Belle Isle, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence...