Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting for him. "Well, well, look who's here," twanged the Governor, a wide smile crinkling his plain, friendly face. "Top o' the mornin' to you all." Slouched back in his chair, brown eyes half-closed behind his octagonal rimless spectacles, the Governor talked about the weather, a fishing trip he planned to take, the lack of news. "You know, boys," drawled he, "I didn't sleep well last night, worryin' about you-all and how there's not much news...
...Last week in Scotland a picked U. S. team of five oldtimers and 18-year-old Patricia Jane ("Patty") Berg eked out a 4½-to-4½ tie, retained the trophy, which has yet to leave the U. S. Real winner was par which, ably assisted by the weather, gave both teams a sound trouncing...
...Committee was confronted with 11,000 pictures, most of them bigger than usual, a great number of industrial and allegorical subjects and surprisingly few landscapes. Academicians blamed the dearth of landscapes on the past year's bad British weather which kept painters indoors...
...thereby fed them with a sense of self-importance instead of with bread. When Hitler left Geneva he aroused his people to unknown heights of excitement, and gave them that wonderful feeling of having told someone where to "get off". Mussolini is now playing that same old weather-beaten trump and hopes to reap the same reward...
...four years before he saw England again. Besides his job as ship's doctor he had the un-naval post of naturalist, and intended to keep a weather eye out for Mollusca, Acalephae, Cirripedia, epizoa, Radiata and such. He rigged up a home-made tow-net to snare his specimens, soon ran afoul of the navigation officers, who complained that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope...