Word: weather
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seven days a week. But there is only so much vaccine available for seeding; it will grow only at its naturally appointed speed (in fertilized eggs). So, even with their crash program, the manufacturers can promise only 8,000,000 shots of vaccine by mid-September. After that, cooler weather is expected to send the flu rate soaring...
With thousands of scattered cases already reported across the U.S., most areas have been exposed to the virus by now. If epidemics develop as expected with the onset of cooler weather, they could spread from San Francisco to Boston within a month...
...outskirts of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, about 30 miles north of London, come visitors of all nations on pilgrimage. They are led down a garden path past herbaceous borders and neat rows of vegetables to emerge suddenly in an open field. Against this lush background stand some weather-beaten perennials (opposite), Moore's abstractions, scooped-out females, spatulate King and Queen, draped Reclining Figure...
...Gothic chapel; no amount of money could ever buy the notion of creating such a thing. Eighty-five dollars bought a rocking horse, carved by some boy's loving father, which had doubtless earned over a million dollars in fantasy races. Best in show, perhaps, was an iron weather vane in the shape of a rooster, presented by an appropriately named antiquarian, Myra Tinklepaugh. "They're hard to find," Mrs. Tinklepaugh briskly allowed. "I'm dickering for another one right now, not far away, only nobody wants to climb up to get it without insurance...
...some, Weatherman Krick was merely lucky, but he and his colleagues insist that their fast-growing young business, financed by industry's millions, is making great strides in the art of weather forecasting. In Hartford, Travelers Insurance Co.'s Meteorologist Dr. Thomas F. Malone has been working on an "odds system" of reporting, which tells radio listeners the precise odds on climate changes ("rain today: 6 out of 10") in contrast to the usual vague predictions. And even a small enterpriser like Houston's John C. Freeman Jr., 37, president of two-year-old Gulf Consultants...