Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love finally blossoms in a farmhouse where Miss Loy and Tracy, stranded by a storm, help the farmer's wife through the ordeal of bearing twins. Even quintuplets would not have made Whipsaw important, but Myrna Loy's charm and Tracy's skillful underplaying are assets that no picture can have...
...Down East" is a gently relaxing New England pastoral. All the scenes are skilfully convincing, so that the audience, even allows such preposterous behavior as Henry, Fonda's turning Rochelle Hudson out into the storm. When the local gossip strides off to the skating party, one is amused; when Andy Devine comes in out of the stormy night, one is convulsed. The entire picture breathes a homely old-fashioned warmth. One becomes a little nostalgic for skating parties, sleigh rides, socials, and the days before the good roads had come to let the outsiders in and the insiders...
Humans may be raised to a par with tree-toads, crickets, and other animals that can foretell a storm without inspecting a barometer. This encouraging announcement came from the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, where C. F. Brooks, professor of Meteorological and director of the Observatory since 1931, and E. Monroe Harwood, Jr., research assistant, have been studying the indications given by clouds...
...first cirrus clouds some either from between west-by-north and northwest, or from between west-by-south and south-west. Cirrus clouds from 10 degree to 19 degrees north of west, or from 11 degrees to 50 degrees south of west are almost a sure sign of a storm in about 24 hours, the scientists reported. These conclusions have been made from records kept over a period of 33 years...
...high cirrus clouds are going faster than the winter average of 35 miles per hour, the storm is likely to be short and light. "This larger proportion for the lesser storms is to be expected," says Professor Brooks, "since fast air-currents usually go with fast-moving storms, which would not yield such a quantity of snow in their brief stay as the slow-moving ones would...