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Word: weather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Case's opening statement rambled from South Dakota weather (blustery) to his family remedy for sinus headaches (a nasal jelly). But there were some hard facts. On Jan. 25. said Case, he received word from South Dakota that a Nebraska lawyer named John Neff had contributed $2,500 to his campaign. Since Case had never received more than $300 in a single contribution, the news "sort of took my breath away." The donation was especially puzzling because Neff's name "did not mean anything to me." Case therefore checked around, learned that Neff had been asking around about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Gas Money | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Donning his most weather-worn clothes, and fired up with expectations of the traditional "sex, beer, riot," many a Freshman will soon head toward Memorial Hall for the Smoker. Like other Harvard customs such as maids and waitresses, the Freshmen Smoker no longer conforms to the lines of genteel tradition...

Author: By Harvey J. Wachtel, | Title: Where There Is Smoke | 2/17/1956 | See Source »

What Macdonald proposes is that the government feed and house the Olympians and pay their transportation bills to Australia. "I am not proposing that we give these athletes salaries," he said, "rather I feel that we should get them together in some training site with weather similar to Australia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Macdonald Asks Olympic Aid | 2/16/1956 | See Source »

...small Briton, two-year-old Abraham McKillop of Dumbartonshire, had a miraculous escape when he was found covered with snow after 16 hours in a frozen ditch, and thawed out unharmed. But not everybody was so fortunate. All in all, the cold weather claimed at least 140 lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Coldest in Years | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Northwest, and although they caused almost no damage, they proved that the westerly winds at high altitude are fine balloon carriers. Last week the U.S. Navy was following the Japanese lead by launching balloons of plastic film from Oppama, Japan. Instead of bombs the balloons carried instruments to report weather conditions encountered on their long voyages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Balloons for the Jet Stream | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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