Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much time in rifle practice, while at Harvard the unit is an artillery one where little opportunity is given for rifle practice. In order to overcome this handicap, the rifle club plans to hold practice shoots at the range in Arlington throughout the winter, or as long as the weather conditions will permit...
Despite bad weather, yield-per-acre was 3% above average this year, although some 10,000,000 acres of winter wheat were frost-killed and a cold, wet June hampered reseeding...
...Laughing Cavalier is a sports roadster. King Henry VIII and The Blue Boy are all-weather phaetons. The Ceiling of the Sis tine Chapel is an inside drive sedan...
...light. Melting of South Polar ice may account for the axial wobbling that the Earth goes through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather. Tremendous winds blow there, influencing the weather of the entire Earth. Cold ocean currents start there, crawl along the ocean floors to the North Pole where they curve upward to cool the relatively warm North Polar waters. Whatever in the Antarctic regions can be seen, measured and studied by the expedition...
...Warm weather precluded workouts for the team, and trainers displayed ingenuity in devising means to keep their charges in condition. Some afternoons the team would assemble on Cambridge Common to sprint up and down and across the intricate pattern of boardwalks laid down there...