Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock; march to breakfast at Mess Hall at 6.30 o'clock, and then march back; first class at 8 o'clock; two classes in the morning, one in the afternoon; intramural athletics for every man, everyday, in the middle of the afternoon; then drill and parade, outdoors when the weather is not too severe; supper at 6.30 o'clock; study from 7.15 until 10 o'clock, when taps sounds and lights...
...Graf Zeppelin is not a fair weather ship," Dr. Eckener explained. "She demonstrated that . . . but I am not going to pick out the worst day to start for America. . . . Moreover the weather will determine whether we travel 4,000 miles or 6,000 miles. . . . Naturally I would like best to choose the northern route which is the shortest. . . . From the moment we reach the European coast we will need from 45 to 80 hours for the actual crossing. . . . After the fortieth hour don't worry if you do not hear from us for a long time...
Electric hydrophone beacons are being used now where formerly light-houses and bells were the only guides. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not seriously affected by weather conditions...
...days later, the Count Zeppelin took 82 people on a longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy...
This evening another activity of the Observatory will get under way, when about a hundred school children from the Cambridge Public Schools will visit the Observatory to listen to an elementary, lecture on astronomy by a Harvard professor and to observe the stars if the weather is favorable. These talks for the school children will continue weekly until June...