Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records, the Chicago Weather Bureau announced that precipitation over 1,000,000 sq. mi. from the Rockies to the Lakes was less than 20% normal. "Worst drought since 1894," said the Lincoln, Neb. Weather Bureau. "Worst in 50 years," retorted Chicago. "There has never been anything like it," cried AAAdministrator Chester Davis. "For intensity, duration and scope, this drought exceeds anything in our knowledge. The ensuing crop failure is likely to be just as drastic...
...disregard the storm warning. Tomorrow's weather has been prearranged...
...field mass in Baltimore Stadium, in commemoration of triple anniversaries-the 300th of the founding of Maryland and the first Catholic mass on Maryland soil, the 100th of the birth of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the 20th of Archbishop Curley's consecration as bishop. With good weather, 100,000 pious folk might be present to fill the stadium as it never had been filled before, and to participate in the largest U. S. mass since the Chicago Eucharistic Congress...
...Protestant churches, warm weather brings conferences and assemblies. Ministers meet, talk, elect officers, pass resolutions, shake hands, go home with new pious zeal. Last week met the following church groups: Dunkers or Dunkards are so named because they dunk. Descended from German pietists of the 18th Century, they believe not only in baptism by immersion but in strict Biblical interpretation, passive resistance to force, rigid avoidance of tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats...
...difficult ... to predict the propulsion of airplanes by radiated energy with the power plants located on the ground. Nor is it difficult to envision the entire system of aerial transportation . . . unaffected by fog and weather conditions. Most of this work is being studied today under the name of photosynthesis-that is, how plants grow.-Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors' researching vice president. ¶ It is reasonable to suppose that we shall soon find some knowledge regarding the ancient history of the universe. Has it been in operation forever, or did it start at some more or less definite time...