Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This can really cause the Crimson trouble if conditions are rough enough to force the race onto a special three-quarter mile "foul-weather course," which the regatta committee had laid out for the occasion. Harvard has had little or no experience at short distances, and Bill Curwen's normally low stroke is not suited to this kind of race...
Rain is the chief threat to the performances. If downpours should occur at any of the concerts, the concert will be called off. Traditionally, however, good weather has prevailed. For the first time in several years, the second concert in the 1948 series was called off, but by extending the concerts over a long period, chances for fair weather at the performances this year are good...
Elsewhere in Europe the weather was better on the first of May, but everywhere the Communists' annual spring rites seemed dampened and dull. Europe's Communists were still reeling from the blow of the Atlantic Treaty. No matter how loudly party leaders shouted, the Russians had backed down in Berlin. Some observers believed that this was the big break-that Russia was in fact suing for a settlement in Europe to devote all her energies to the Red drive in Asia...
Balloon & Star. Project Saucer sifted more than 240 reports in the" U.S. and 30 in foreign parts. About 30% of the "unidentified aerial phenomena," it decided, were due to astronomical objects, such as meteors, bright stars or planets. Other flying discs turned out to be weather balloons, some of them carrying lights, or the big plastic balloons that scientists send up to study cosmic rays. Some of the mysterious lights were probably reflections on an airplane's windshield...
...improve its time, however, the crew must have a repetition of last week's perfect rowing weather...