Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prayer & the Weather...
...reads [TIME, Sept. 27] that the Canon of Winchester wrote in the British weekly Time & Tide, "Our Lord . . . specifically ordered us to pray for and to heal the sick. But about the weather He had nothing to say. He simply accepted it." I do hope that before his face becomes too red the Reverend Canon reads Matthew 8:24-27* and reconsiders his statement that Our Lord "had nothing to say" about the weather...
...shoot come back to hunters with the turn of the season. Memory rides south with the migrating waterfowl on the first clear days of fall. Then the wind veers into the northeast, the barometer drops, grey clouds scud into rain, and that old feeling returns. It is fine duck weather-time for a man to be paddling out into the marshes in the predawn cold, waiting with frostbitten impatience for a long V of honkers, watching them wing into the breeze and flare out as they drop down to feed...
Despite such attempts to douse the enthusiasm of the bandsmen away from home, even the disheartening combination of foul weather and fouler football have not kept the band from serenading the team after every game. Such consistency of spirit prompted varsity coach Lloyd P. Jordan to present the organization with the football used in the Crimson's 22-to 21 upset victory over Army in 1951. The ball is now encased in a place of honor in the band room...
...Brook said that New England weather has become slightly warmer in the last few years. But when asked if New England weather were particularly erratic, he replied, "I guess you have never been to Chicago...