Word: thunderstorms
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...attention of newspapers was largely centered on the question whether Commander Lansdowne had been ordered to take the flight in spite of his protest. Official correspondence showed that it had been ordered in July, but that Commander Lansdowne had objected that midsummer was a thunderstorm period and had asked that it be postponed until September. Later he recommended that it take place during the second week of September. Instead it was ordered in the first week of the month. To this order he did not object. The purpose of setting the date for the flight...
...First Christian Church, she found her house defaced with fragments of more than a dozen putrescent eggs. Next day she had the egg stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home one evening from a meeting of Sunday School teachers, she arrived just as a thunderstorm burst. She lit a light and sat down to sew near a window. Above the roar of the thunder, there was the crack of a shot. Through the fractured window, a bullet sank into her heart. The assailant escaped...
...native of Detroit, Dr. Scott was for nine years a student and protegé of no less a personage than the late Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, wizened wizard of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y., in whose laboratory more than once there was manufactured a miniature thunderstorm with artificial lightning...
...taken literally. As everyone knows, the sky is not blue during a thunderstorm...
...THUNDERSTORM-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Mistress of many moods, the author of Debatable Ground and The Matriarch (Mrs. Geoffrey Holdsworth of England) well merits the distinction of her pseudonymous initials (G. B. S.) Few writers of equal taste can so deftly thread the fine needle of discernment with the wiry fibres of reality. Thunderstorm begins as an idyll-an intelligent young English couple basking beneath the comic benevolence of their Italian servants, emotional 'Vanna and heroic Ettore. Basking with them are semi-permanent guests, a durable male friend, a spirited girl cousin. To the baskers blows a breeze...