Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither cold weather not a muddy arena could keep Radcliffe equestrians from holding their horseback riding intramurals yesterday afternoon. They simply moved indoors...
...Cold weather ended outdoor rowing last week, and forced the retreat to Newell. The tank, set in the middle of a large pool, is similar to a shell. Thus an athlete can keep on learning the fundamental techniques of rowing with the coaches at his elbow to point out just how it's done...
Most of the weather-wise plains people battened down and bowed in submission to the storm. But in Kansas, Mrs. Maxine Laughlin, 30, of Jetmore, who was eight months pregnant, got in her car and drove to Dodge City for a prenatal checkup. The car stalled; she set out afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans...
Filter Walls. A building's walls and roof used to be considered mere barriers. They might be decorated on the outside, but their main purpose was to keep the weather out. Modern architects think of a wall as a filter between the outside and inside environments. For example, the wall of a factory in a hot climate should reflect outside heat and absorb inside heat, passing as much of it as possible to the outside. In a cold climate, the wall should gather all possible heat from the sunlight, while keeping inside heat from moving out. Modern materials, such...
...Harvard motorists, already plagued with parking problems and fines, the arrival of winter will mean new expenses and problems. Police promise that parking fines will become more prevalent, and stubborn motorists who have evaded the fair-weather forays of Cambridge may find their cars towed off the streets to clear the way for snow plows...