Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tornado. Last week Don Griffith, 10, of Rock Springs, Tex., noticed a "funny feeling" in the air. It had been raining all evening and the sky looked "queer." Said Father Griffith: "It looks like a storm coming." Then came a roar, a crashing sound as of houses falling, and beneath the feet of the Griffiths the floor lifted up. Don heard his mother call to him, then everything went black. Recovering consciousness, Don found himself lying in mud amid the ruins of the Griffith house...
...Congress to grant certain governmental and economic reforms which will soothe the independence agitation. These reforms were suggested in Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report (TIME, Jan. 3)-which, among other things, hinted that Governor General Wood's "cavalry cabinet" is the storm centre of Filipino dissatisfaction. (The "cavalry cabinet" is a group of Army officers who act as advisors and administrators for the Governor General...
...streamed out of the interior, to be picked up and carried to safety by warships of the Great Powers continually steaming up and down such major rivers as the Yangtze. No Occidentals were killed in China last week but there were doubtful signs that the lull only proceeded a storm of international intervention...
While this storm was still in abeyance the Nationalists pushed their advantage and sent three armies rapidly advancing toward Peking which correspondents declared "certain to fall" on the strength of a doubtful rumor that famed War Lord Chang Tso-lin was withdrawing his forces to his great war base at Markden Manchuria...
Northward from Florida and Texas, eastward from the storm-drenched purlieus of Los Angeles they go ? 500 leather-cheeked, great-knuckled athletes, members of the 16 "big" league teams, presumably the best baseball players in the world. For two months they have been practising; playing exhibition games under the languid unimportant gaze of winter traveler and native, under the sharply appraising eye of owner, manager, scribe. Then northward, eastward they go for careful records show that after April 11 meteorological conditions from Boston to Chicago will permit professional baseball to operate at a profit on summer playgrounds. On April...