Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio-meteorograph operated by a clock has been sent up frequently in a Weather Bureau airplane from East Boston airport since last April. Although flights were discontinued for a time because of two crashes in foggy weather, they have been recently resumed. A clear and immediate record of conditions as high as the plane goes is now received at Blue Hill...
Abbot's Weather. When the National Academy met at Cambridge two years ago Charles Greeley Abbot, gaunt, assiduous secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed solar researcher, affirmed his belief, after long study, that weather on Earth tends to repeat itself in cycles of 23 years. Backing this up last week he showed the academicians how the 23-year cycle could be traced in the water levels of the Great Lakes, in yearly growth rings on trees, in the catch of codfish and mackerel, in deposits of clay laid down by Pleistocene glaciers. On the basis of his cycle...
...became the first woman to make the round trip solo. Last week she again took off from England, this time for a series of swift hops to Thies in Senegal, finally on to Natal for a flawless crossing in the record time of 13 hr. 15 min., despite bad weather...
...that gallon of sorghum. I'd have written sooner to tell you they stole your last four chickens, but I couldn't find a stamp. The moths are in the clothes and two blankets. Both children have mumps. Harry says he will sign your bond if the weather fairs...
...would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...