Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southern station of the Harvard Observatory situated in Peru has now been moved completely to South Africa because of unfavorable weather conditions at its location in South America. A base has been established 14 miles from the town of Bloemfontein and it was announced yesterday that the contract has been let for the construction of seven buildings which are to house the telescopes and provide for offices, a library, servants quarters and garage, as well as a residence for the superintendent...
...directed northwards towards the Azores. Late in the afternoon the ship was sighted over Sao Miguel headed finally for the open sea. It was at this time that Karl H. von Wiegand, Hearst correspondent, radioed: "While ocean liners along the northern steamer lane are laboring in the heaviest weather, the Graf Zeppelin is sailing along under beautiful skies a thousand feet above the smooth ocean...
Again unfavorable weather loomed. Dr. Eckener chose to linger in the vicinity of Bermuda while the passengers, restless, longed for speedy finish, tired of the gramophone. The sausages were gone, food was being rationed...
...Boston en masse was in 1821, when a corps of 235 marched up the Hudson and over the mountains from the plains of west Point, a hike of some 250 miles. Unlike the trip last night when all were protected in luxurious sleeping case, the corps of 1821 weathered in their tents and lean-tos varying degrees of clemency. Much of the trip, according to the newspaper account published in the Boston commercial Gazette of August 9 1821, was made in adverse weather conditions. On the last trip to Boston the cadets were presented with two standards by the selectmen...
...amount to 235; and we also learn that every one of them who left West Point well, was in good health when the corps entered the town, after a march of nearly 250 miles, over a mountainous country, and having for the most part of the time very bad weather. What we have seen of their police, movements, manual and position satisfies us that the high praise bestowed upon them in every place through which they have passed has been realized, and fully justifies the best expectations of the public...