Word: weather
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weather man confidently predicted "complete clearing by noon" for the fray...
...juggled the not yet dry pigskin menacingly. Now it was Warner's turn to beef. "Nothing in the rules," repeated Thorp. The Indians finally saw the light, turned their jerseys inside out, and a regular football was use. Thorp admitted, though, that you always had to keep a weather eye on the Indians...
...ways: by gunfire from the ground or gunfire from defending planes. Antiaircraft gunnery is soundly organized, having within each combat component (of four guns per battery) an effective detection and warning system, based largely on the fact that big planes can nearly always be heard, and in fair weather can be seen, in time to aim the guns. The one large question mark remaining is accuracy, with which the Army was not primarily concerned last week. Pursuit plane defense is not so soundly organized. Bomber speeds of 250 m.p.h. so nearly equal (and in some types exceed) pursuit speeds that...
...weather man confidently predicted fair and cold, the reverse of usual Dartmouth weather for the clash. Meanwhile the mackinawed men from the hills of Hanover kept pouring into Harvard by the twos, threes, fours, and squads. The curtain rises
GLOUCESTER, Mass.--The third race for the International Fishermen's trophy was postponed today for a ninth time so that official measurement of the disputed waterline and sail area of the two contenders may be taken tomorrow. The race will be sailed Sunday--weather permitting--twice around an 18- mile triangle off Gloucester, the race committee said