Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although for a number of years people have been waiting for the storm of skiing to blow itself out, that sport has upset the dope by becoming more and more popular despite every trick of the weather. New with the announcement that Norwood Cox will give expert instruction over the coming weekends to anyone at Harvard who joins the squad, skiing is already showing sings of struggling to its feet as a recognized Harvard sport...
...turn to the Right in Mexico comes not from the disorganized conservatives and dispossessed landlords but, paradoxically, from within the Cárdenas regime itself. President Cárdenas came in on a program of "social revolution" for Mexico's proletariat which is now encountering rough weather. For three years of his six-year term he insisted he was still pointing Left. Suddenly, two months ago he pushed through measures which smack of a totalitarian state and make him virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved his and Mexico's majority party, reorganized it to give...
...Dance of the Seven Veils in Richard Strauss's Salome has always been the despair of opera impresarios. Problem: to find a soprano hefty enough to sing the music, loose-limbed enough to do the dance, shapely enough to weather the moderate public disrobing...
...tried four times to escape. The second time, he and eight companions got hold of an Indian dugout, headed into the Caribbean. When they ran into rough weather and it turned out that none of them knew navigation, they beached the boat, started back through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...
Factors that send spirits soaring are dates, health, weather, grades, and letters from home. Vacations and examinations cause the greatest fluctuations...