Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather on the morning of Tuesday, June 22, made it wholly impracticable to attempt the raising. No diving could be done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to boost the pontoons sufficiently to make up for the overnight leakage and to maintain them "as they were" until the wind and sea should moderate. The bow pontoons had not yet been boosted when the bow was found to be coming...
Brigadier General A. C. Dalton is 60 years old. Square-jawed and weather-beaten by many years of gallant army service (D. S. M.), his frame illy accords with an alpaca suit. He received what shipping experience he possesses during 1917-18 in the Transport Service...
...taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon have the camera mounted in the rear cockpit of his plane, at the flying post in Dayton, Ohio, with a heating apparatus around it to protect it from the 80°-below zero weather of 35,000 feet aloft. Then he will ascend, take panoramic views showing 318 miles of earth at once, with little blotches for great cities, tiny veins for huge rivers...
...object was to produce an animal that, on minimum food, would work harder in hot weather than a mule. This he succeeded in doing, although the zebroids are difficult to break to harness However, at six years old, the eight zebroids do any farm work that horses perform, and can unquestionably stand far more heat, which is the purpose of the zebra strain. The beasts are docile and intelligent in harness, but race boisterously once loosened in an enclosure, showing speed and agility in pivoting at corners, rivaling panthers in their ease in clearing fences. If the beasts are corraled...
...Brukkaros crater, with a 60-ft. precipice for his doorstep and only Hottentots for neighbors. He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable of registering to a millionth of a degree the sun's radiation. His daily telegrams to Washington will be studied by long-range weather-forecasters, who, working on the theory that fluctuations in solar heat occasion all terrestrial weather disturbances, will warn farmers, mariners, aeronauts and the parent planning his child's picnic, of coming storms...