Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powdery blue-green Bordeaux mixture from their smocks and thanked le bon Dieu that what showed every prospect of being the greatest vintage since unforgettable 1893 had come to an end. Chemists and agricultural experts bore them out. All over France, in the Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy districts, weather has been ideal for the vine this summer. There was little hail, and the drought that burned up wheat crops only made deep-rooted grapes the sweeter. Analyses of the green wine have already sent prices soaring, but production all over Europe will be huge. Bordeaux expects to produce...
...Cold weather, however, soon drives them indoors. . . . The young husband tires of loafing, love-making begins to pall, love begins to seem to both of them not quite 'enough.' ... So he takes a job in the Capitals and proudly brings home MONEY, receives her grateful smiles and feels elated. She immediately goes shopping. Presently she calls for 'a home' and soon other wants appear. . . . They throw their energies into the Capitals...
Because it is a 32-mi. over-water jump, because the prevailing weather is bad, the London-Paris air route is unquestionably one of the world's most hazardous. That it is also one of the oldest and busiest, none can deny. Last week's accident was the first in four years for Hillman's Airways, which maintains the fastest daily air service between London and Paris. Imperial Airways, operating eleven planes across the Channel daily, boasts a personal accident insurance rate no higher than that for rail travel. For U. S. airlines the rate is eight...
...weather permits, anyone so desiring may learn of the secrets of the heavens through the telescope at the Observatory. Saturn, the ringed planet, will be an object of special interest to amateur investigators...
This voice crying in the wilderness in that of L. L. B. Angas, a British financial prophet and weather-man who has the interesting habit of producing periodical manifestoes, predicting with unfailing accuracy important pending events in the world of international finance and commerce. He predicted, some months in advance of the actual date, the rubber market collapse of 1926, the English boom in the fall of 1931, and the world-wide rise in the price of gold shares. Now he is again gambling his reputation, this time with a booklet entitled "The Coming American Boom...