Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost every spring, Stuffy McInnis faces a doubly-difficult problem in molding a varsity baseball team. Graduation losses are only part of the problem; lack of practice is an almost equal handicap. For Cambridge weather is seldom warm and often wet until the season has actually begun...
Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford hopped off a train in Manhattan, allowed that the weather was colder than it was in home town San Antonio, where she had dropped off for a visit, then rushed away to have "a little fun in New York...
...Harris ran into stormy weather with the board. About 25% of Northwest's common stock is owned by Wertheim & Co., or held for customers of two New York brokerage firms, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. They have a tight grip on the board. But Harris felt they were less interested in long-range plans than in the quick resumption of dividend payments that would increase the market value of their common stock. To the board's distress, the stock sank lower under Harris, from 14½ in January 1953 to a year...
...practical as the ends they hope to achieve. Scientific wrangling over what makes a current--the varying density of the water, or the winds, or a combination, is now no more academic palaver. The oceanographers regard the sea as the fly wheel in the metrological system. Effective weather predictions seems to depend on understanding the interchange between the ocean...
...sickle-drivers were dragging for beers in Cronin's last night. The weather was clear and the track was fast in Jim's Place, at 11:45 p.m. when two undergraduates arrived for last call on a Harley-Davison...