Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President: the weather was very...
...People do not attend church in the summer months," deplored the Protestant Episcopal Chronicle last week, echoing many another earnest denominational organ. "This seasonal lull seems for the present, at least, to defy solution." To the problem of hot weather shirking, two ministers last week reported two original solutions...
...Diego to New York as a test hop for an expedition Explorer Archbold plans to New Guinea this year. With Pilot Russell Rogers, Explorer Archbold and four others aboard, the big ship covered the 2,600-miles overnight in 17 hr. 3½-min. So perfect was the weather that the Sperry gyro-pilot handled the controls most...
Celebration of the King's birthday has become one of Britain's most impressive spectacles, drawing thousands of gaping tourists to London. Not the least of sanctified George V's services to his empire was the fact that he was born on June 3, when the weather is fine, when trade is apt to be dull. A king's birthday in the fog and rain of December and in the midst of the Christmas shopping rush is poor business. No reason whatever was given for choosing June 9 as George VI's birthday...
When a total eclipse of the sun passes any considerable distance across land, the gloating of astronomers who enjoyed clear weather during totality is usually mingled with groans from others foiled by clouds. Last week no groans were heard after the eclipse which crossed a great reach of the Pacific, touching almost no land (TIME, June 14). It was unfortunate that this celestial performance, which had a maximum totality duration unequaled in more than 1,200 years, should confine its watchers to three small, makeshift observation areas, only two of which were on solid ground. But none of these areas...