Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reign of Elizabeth provide compulsory employment for the peripatetic vagrants of the time, and dire punishments for those who refused to work. Today there are no such restrictions, and one who is at best a Student Vagabond may enjoy the priviliges of his order, especially during this unseasonable weather that makes his legs tingle for the hard road beneath them, and the joys of true vagabondage. So the explaining of the course of French socialism in the eighteenth century I shall, with true vagabondish carelessness, leave to Dr. Mason in his lecture in Economics 7b at 10 o'clock today...
...been for the fact that we have had such glorious weather, I'm sure that some of your other many subscribers in this city would have corrected this very big error, but all of us have been outdoors and have had no time for letter writing. . . . ALBERT STEVES...
Yesterday's contest was the first scheduled game that the Freshmen have been able to play. Unfavorable weather conditions made play on the outdoor rinks impossible. The first year men were playing their initial contest under the direction of Coach C. I. Peirson '25, successor to J. H. Dempsey '23, who established the unparalleled record of turning out three undefeated teams...
...Tray had his day. Not to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd for his spectacular flight to the North Pole and back last spring at Spitzbergen but to U. S. Mail Pilot Shirley J. Short, for having flown 2,000 hours with valuable cargo in all kinds of weather and with never a serious accident or lapse in schedule, did the International League of Aviators last week award the Harmon Trophy for the best performance in 1926 by a U. S. flyer. To Pilot Georges Pelleder D'Oisy for his long distance flights (France to Africa, Paris to Tokyo) went...
When the first Transatlantic telephone service was opened in New York, most of the remarks made concerned the weather. There apparently was a startling disparity of climatic conditions in London and New York. Reading the account of the conversations, many remembered the first message sent on that other momentous occasion, the opening of the telegraph: "What hath God wrought...