Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgot to mention churning. I had to turn the churn and we had one cow that I despised; it seemed as if her cream never would turn into butter, and it also seemed as if it was always time to churn when the weather was just right for fishing or sliding down hill. Churning was an all-the-year-round...
...when I was a boy; it is so still. Sometimes I think it is even worse now than was the case 50 years ago. I refer to such things as leaving wagons and farm machinery out in the fields or outside the barn or shed in all kinds of weather, permitting window panes to be missing, doors and gates off the hinges, fences out of order, piles of wood, lumber and stones around the buildings where they ought not to be; stumps and stones in a tillable field when they might be removed; piles of rubbish around the place that...
...Boston Museum has perhaps the finest collection of Monet in America. Among the pictures are a famous marine showing a weather beaten bark, riding at anchor, her sails half-furled, and a brilliant wiater scene, "Le Debacle...
When the league opened its season a month ago, only five teams entered the lists. The addition of touch football to the prescribed sports open to Freshmen gave the league a tremendous impetus, and teams enlisted rapidly until at one time fifteen combinations were included in the league. Bad weather finally cut short the completion of the schedule...
...dissected dome feature already mentioned. This old summit level is, I suppose, and old plane of erosion, later uplifted, and the dissection guided by the dominant structures of the granite, which includes two vertical planes of easy splitting and, much less marked, a curving horizontal plane of weakness. The weather works into the vertical plane and splits off great blocks, which, falling, form the immense masses at the foot of the cliffs and thus originate the tremendous precipices and great jags of the crest, like splinters set on edge...