Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secondary line of cruisers, several hours behind the leaders; acting the same way. In fair weather, aircraft carriers would cooperate with these cruisers, their circling swarms scouting far ahead...
...plenty of destroyers, though these are aging.† But the U. S. quite lacks destroyer leaders-big, beamy head-ships for the destroyer squadrons (18 strong), built heavier and steadier for observation purposes and so that they can keep up with the main fleet at top speed in dirty weather. The proposed aircraft carriers are limited by the Washington Treaty of 1922 to a maximum of 27,000 tons each, a minimum...
...attempted" because somewhere up there, at the Top of the Widener, swept by the mighty corridor drafts that are forever playing about the summit, stained by the thousand changes of weather and the weekly change of floor-mops, lie the bones of two gallant gentlemen, my friends, two of the bravest explorers that ever cheated a native...
...hoped by members of the class that, weather permitting, they may spend one of the regular Saturday afternoon ten-mile hikes this month, trotting through snow on snowshoes...
...Horseshoe--has just returned from a trip to Bermuda which he had promised himself for a long time, in fact ever since the muddy slush in the holes of Massachusetts Avenue began to get on his nerves and in his shoes. But even the in-elemency of New England weather, and his interest in the onion and Easter lily crop in Bermuda--which is doing nicely, thank you--could not keep him from what he considered a duty as well as a pleasure. For man does not live by--but we all know that story...