Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will," declared Sohn. He studied flying-squirrels and bats, compared his findings with glider principles, began working on a set of wings in his spare time while traveling with an air circus. Few weeks ago he completed his flying-gear, went to Daytona Beach to await ideal weather. His apparatus was made of airplane fabric and metal tubing, weighed only eight pounds. A web-like tail fin was sewed between the legs of his flying suit. His wings, more like a bat's than a bird's, were fastened to the arms and sides of his suit...
...Long Beach, N. Y. one day in June four years ago (TIME, June 29, 1931). Partly because of her incredible name, partly because of her spectacular sex life, the Press quickly picked up all that was left of Starr Faithfull and gave it to the nation as a hot weather sensation. With the mystery of the girl's death still unsolved, the story eventually collapsed. But newspaper publishers had not heard the last of Starr Faithfull. Her stepfather, Stanley Faithfull. lean, gimlet-eyed, red-whiskered and eccentric, started libel actions against every newspaper in Manhattan...
...citizens he writes: "Hard-mouthed, hard-eyed, and strident-tongued, with their million hard gray faces, they streamed past upon the streets forever, like a single animal, with the sinuous and baleful convolutions of an enormous reptile. And the magical and shining air-the strange, subtle and enchanted weather, was above them, and the buried men were strewn through the earth on which they trod, and a bracelet of great tides was flashing round them, and the enfabled rock on which they swarmed swung eastward in the marches of the sun into eternity, and was masted like a ship with...
...Locomotive Works in his tiny shop in Lodge Alley, Philadelphia in 1831. His first locomotive, "Old Ironsides," weighed five tons, had to be taken out of the shop through a hole in the wall. It could run the six miles from Philadelphia to Germantown in twelve minutes-in good weather. In 1849 Matthias Baldwin built the "Governor Paine" which worked up a speed of 60 m.p.h. on the new Vermont Central Railroad. Baldwin locomotives puffed through the Civil War, through the lusty era of Westward expansion, through the Spanish-American War until, during the World War, 300 per month were...
Furthermore, if timid Mr. Caspar Milquetoast should sit down next to him in a train and commence, out of nervousness, to talk about the weather...