Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters at press conference next day found that the President had gone from hot-weather shirt sleeves into a grey suitcoat, seemingly new. Not new, said he: the suit was at least a year old. Whereupon he peeked at a label, amazedly announced that the suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...
Chicago at Pittsburgh postponed--cold weather...
...Atoms In Action, Author Harrison shows how the discoveries of fundamental science have been applied in communications, agriculture, glassmaking, radio, medicine, weather prediction, aviation, a dozen other technologies. Atoms In Action is not only authoritative but readable, for Author Harrison has a fine flair for colorful analogy, e.g., "When one of the modern atom-smashing devices is put into operation the atomic debris comes flying out like dirt from a gopher hole in which a very industrious puppy is scratching...
Hardly a man is now alive who remembers Dan Beard except as the be-buckskinned, gimlet-eyed, weather-resistant Grand Old Man of the Boy Scouts. Yet his autobiography gives only eleven pages to his career as founder and National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Apparently "Uncle" Dan thinks his 30 years of Scouting is altogether too well known-it "seems to have wiped my past history off the slate," he complains. His picturesque record of a Vanishing American, written with a sort of grizzled spryness, covers his first 60 years, before he joined the Boy Scouts...
...other threat was peace. If peace comes unexpectedly, before enormous export orders bail out those who last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...