Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparable only to the strict wartime supervision of the press in France. Under its sweeping regulations the Minister of National Defense had power to take over all communications. Forbidden was any "adverse or unfavorable statement . . . likely to prejudice the defense of Canada" or prosecution of the war. Even weather reports were no longer published...
...floats have been out of the water for a couple of days but crews will still be putting out if weather permits. "After Armistice Day you can never tell what the weather will be like," says Harvey...
...found that the women did not begin to perspire until the temperature of their skins was two degrees higher than "the threshold of sweating" in the men. This holding back is due to a more flexible metabolism in women, which simply slows down their internal heat production in hot weather...
...married and went to Borneo in 1934, returned to the U. S. on her first leave this year. She writes cautiously little, suggestively well, of the social stringencies of the European colony, "as gently inflexible . . . as the design on a set of teacups," devotes more specific attention to the weather, to servants and household pets, to guests, to a journey through the jungle...
...weather: "My shoes in the wardrobe are wet, my clothes on their hangers wilt, the cough drops melt in the corked bottle, and the envelopes in the desk all seal themselves." Of servants there were five, among them a little native boy, one of whose chief duties was "to stand with his small bare feet apart and whistle fuzzily." Of household pets there were swarms, domestic and wild...