Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promise that the debtor would live up to its engagement. ¶ Weary from the heavy job of setting up machinery to spend his $4,000,000,000 works fund and trying to spur Congress into action, the President got some relief when, for the first time this year, the weather was pleasant enough for him to spend an afternoon on the Potomac aboard the Sequoia. ¶ Fortnight ago the President and Chief Justice Hughes considered the disposal of that half of Oliver Wendell Holmes's $550,000 estate which the Supreme Court Justice willed to the U. S. Last...
...baseball championship, and that they will be battling right down the line. Each of these teams is as yet undefeated, Winthrop taking over Leverett Wednesday, while Brooks easily conquered Adams today. The game between the two Houses was scheduled for Monday, April 15, but was postponed because of weather. The most important game of the season will come when these two teams get together within the next few days...
...uniforms and white caps were too busy to do anything but their jobs. With the ship guided by a robot pilot and directional radio beam, Captain Edwin C. Musick and Chief Pilot Sullivan checked the course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made a dozen trips to the aft observation hatch to ''shoot...
...Bragdon, Maine farmer, had a long day. Its morning began in 1870, when Gus was merely the youngest of the Bragdon boys, farming his few stony acres when the weather would let him, working in the winter at the Navy Yard at Kittery. The Blaines, aristocrats of the neighborhood, looked down on the Bragdons as closefisted grubbers; so did everyone else but the no-account Linscotts. But the Bragdons had never been whiffle-minded, and Gus was the least whiffle-minded of the lot. He went his taciturn way, refused to get religion, left the church when his brethren...
Because of unfavorable weather conditions, the second attempt of the Varsity nine to play a scheduled game with Boston University met with failure yesterday afternoon when the contest at Weston was called off on account of rain. The first game was cancelled two weeks ago for similar reasons...