Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Commander Byrd, looking weather-beaten, stood before a cheering assemblage of ambassadors and ministers of many nations, Supreme Court justices, cabinet members, congressmen, scientists and high officers of the Army and Navy. He received the welcome and congratulations of President Coolidge, who also presented him with a gold medal from the National Geographic Society...
...still industry's best barometer. Of the General Motors rise they could point out that it was based on a report from Detroit that retail auto sales in May had unprecedentedly outstripped sales in April, but that this report was based, in turn, upon unusually late motoring weather. The 30 other stocks were, however, indubitable evidence of the bankers' determination to make a market. And the higher-than-ever seat price could not be discounted as a phenomenon of supply and demand. The majority of seat buyers lately has not consisted of youngsters experimenting with their patrimony...
...rowing this afternoon, the Crimson oarsmen were sent for a five-mile walk by Coach Haines. As yet the University shell has not been put through a time trial, although it is possible that Captain Winthrop's men will be put through their paces for time tomorrow if the weather improves. This afternoon brought the worst weather conditions with which the eights have had to contend. No changes have been made in any of the boats with the exception of the 'shift occasioned by Watts' blistered hand...
...Felt the breath of electric fans installed in the Senate Chamber for the first time in several years- denoting that the session is expected to last into hot weather...
Even careful people who read weather reports in the newspapers sometimes get caught in the rain. Far better off is the man with a barometer in his front hall. Where earthquakes are concerned, predictions and precautions are much harder to disseminate and to take in time, and the results of unpreparedness are much more serious. Scientific laboratories have seismographs and report temblors to the newspapers with all possible speed, but people in California, Hawaii, Japan would be far better off if they could have seismographs in their front halls. More often than not the earth's major convulsions take...