Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after dawn one morning last week the four planes left Cali, Colombia for Panama. Because of adverse weather 'reports Major Frank Felix Miranda flew the Colon northeast up the valley between the ranges of the Cordilleras, sat down safely at his destination. The three Cuban planes, commanded by First Lieutenant Antonio Menendez Pelaez, transatlantic Naval ace, wanting to reach the coast before turning north, started to cross the Cordilleras to the west. Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried...
...United States Weather Bureau reports favorable conditions for weekend sports enthusiasts. Increasing cloudiness will settle over all New England with snow expected to fall over Northern sector today (Fri.) or tonight. The supply of snow around Boston which was heavily crusted last week may be covered with the same blanket of snow that skiers are waiting for up North. However, there is a chance that showers will make the prospects in the Southern part of New England gloomier. The temperature throughout the New England States will drop slightly, but will remain around the twenties during the nights. More snow will...
...Provincetown, manages to treat old and new Cape Cod with the same good-natured detachment. Almost every book shows flashes of inspired writing. Even the pedestrian Lincoln City Guide of Lincoln, Neb. brightens up in its account of the temperance movement and the wonders of Nebraska weather...
That buildings should look like what they are meant to be is an architectural first principle whose modernistic practice is currently labeled "functionalism." The same label can be applied to the literary practice of certain contemporary poets whose poems, like "functionalist" buildings, are constructed with a marked weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most...
...honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather...