Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There exists a local phenomenon appearing annually at this season that is known to the natives as changeable weather. Properly it is one with the subject that has been ostrasized conversationally since Mark Twain pronounced that dictum that people have no right to complain when they never do anything about it. Still it insists on attracting attention because each year in the opinion of experienced observers it far exceeds any previous performances. And it is impossible to minimize the importance of a fact upon which comparative strangers are eager to give information at the least encouragement. For the persistency with...
...time between next Monday and the Christmas holidays will be devoted solely to the fundamentals of track, and no time trials will be held until January, Coach Farrell said. The long distance men will train with roadwork until unfavorable weather forces them indoors. They will then use the cinder track to avoid the strain on the leg muscles caused, by running long distances on wooden boards...
...would have been with Captain Frederick A. Giles, if he could have got his freighter. But there was none in sight and he must needs fly all the way to the California coast whence he started. At least so say the weather experts, who claim that the sun was shining calmly in the spot five hundred miles from shore where he claims that a tempest blew away all his instruments, food and signal charts. All the equipment is certainly gone, and it seems that only the word of the weather burean can keep Captain Giles from the damp quill...
...political difficulties of tackling Mr. Everest were cleared away by the personal friendship between Sir Charles Bell and the Dalai Lama of Lhasa. In 1922 the first expedition made an in-road on the desired region, mapping the surroundings, gained knowledge of the weather and choosing a route up the peak. A few poor attempts were made on the mountain itself, but these were abruptly ended by the death of several porters in an avalanche...
...Lackan, County Mavo, Ireland, a Catholic priest, one Father Quinn, listening drowsily to his radio. The weather reports were coming in: ". . . rains over Holland . . . cold days marching southward through France. . . ." As he reached to turn off the loud speaker, its hoarse voice growled a terrible threat: "High wind and rain ... a hurricane . . . tempest will reach the west coast of Ireland tonight. . . ." Father Quinn thought of the fishermen who went out upon Galway Bay in wretched, unsubstantial tarred-canvas boats- the only boats they could afford. Hatless, he raced out of his house and down to the shore to give warning...