Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvardians, a 10 piece orchestra, will furnish the music. This jazz band, which is composed entirely of University students, has played at many affairs about the University. If weather permits, the porch will be opened for dancing...
...quest of $5,000. They were small, light Class B land planes of the commercial type, flying for a money prize in a transcontinental race to Spokane, Wash. Twenty-five started; that night pilots of twelve went to bed in Chicago; the first official stopping place. Thick, drizzly weather and brutally bumpy air over the Alleghenies stirred pilots to call it the most dangerous hop they had ever made. Over half of the planes came down short of the stopping point owing to weather, engine or equipment defects. No one was injured. Two planes landed ahead of the field...
...race from New York to Spokane dropped out so that when starting time came only Eddie Stinson and C. A. (Duke) Schiller hopped off. Both flew Stinson-Detroiter monoplanes, manufactured in Stinson's name in Detroit. Both, nearly there, dropped in Montana. After flying all night through difficult weather, Mr. Schiller was forced down at Billings, almost out of gas, Mr. Stinson reached Missoula, which has a flying field, with his motor balking from a stuck valve. Fearing wild intervening country, he decided not to chance it with the cranky engine, and quit the race...
From the relatively simple process of announcing bedroom story-tellers and weather reports on the regular studio program, Announcer McNamee has assumed a position of national prominence. Inevitably, he has had much criticism. Sports experts grumble that he does not know the sport he is describing. Radio executives answer that neither do most of the listeners; that colorful, general reports are more satisfying to the masses than accurate technical descriptions. Sports experts, particularly fight listeners, agree that with seeing many fights and football games his knowledge is increasing...
...Weather conditions generally force the end of outdoor rowing about November 1. It is possible that a brief program of handicap races may conclude the schedule...