Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beetling behind a big red fan of beard, Denmark's huge Social Democratic Premier Thorvald A. M. Stauning has sailed his little country handsomely, since the spring of 1929, through fair weather & foul. Most ticklish stretch came after Britain, to whom Danish farmers sell most of their eggs and butter, cheapened the pound (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Premier Stauning sensibly cheapened Denmark's krone proportionately in step with the pound. Results were so good that thrifty Danish exporters of dairy products began to think results would be better if the krone were devalued not merely down...
...places, seemed at first glance to have reached the end of her 27-year career. Still on board with a skeleton crew, harassed Captain Johan van Dulken yammered for tugs, kept one eye cocked on the horizon for their approach, the other on the sky for signs of bad weather, which he well knew would batter his ship to bits. For five days his worried vigil was rewarded with calm weather, as speedily-marshaled salvagers arrived and went to work. Having only two salvage ships at hand last week when it was estimated more than 50 tugs were needed, officials...
Outdoor practice, which begins this week, will be held at the State range at Wakefield, Mass., as long as the weather permits. Regular army caliber .30 rifles will be used on the 200 yard range. Indor shooting will be done every Tuesday and Thursday over the 50 feet range in the basement of Memorial Hall with .22 caliber rifiles during winter months...
...managers did not help. The Chicago White Sox, leaders in May, slipped in June. The New York Yankees, who were ahead on the Fourth of July, collapsed sooner and even more feebly than the Giants. In the second division until June, the Tigers finally got going with the hot weather, coasted through the last two weeks of the season, winning less than half of their last 15 games...
...waters, handling a boat whose underwater design gave her as much advantage running before a light breeze as Norna had tacking into a stiff one, stalked the Norwegian boat like a cat, blanketing the wind out of her sails on a reach, keeping her to leeward against the weather, outfooting her on the last leg home...