Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the banks of the Potomac, Japanese cherry trees were last week bursting into bloom, sign of hot weather soon to come, sign that Congress should soon wind up its lengthy session. Senator Connally of Texas, moved by these harbingers of summer, thought of being gracious: why should not a small delegation of Democratic Congressmen go down to the Union Station to meet the President returning from vacation? Senator Borah, also gracious, asked: Why should not Republicans be included? The cloak rooms buzzed. Someone had a bright idea: Why not invite the whole of Congress? Why not march down with...
...sealer's life has eased since Captain Kean first went out. Now ships are powered to escape grinding ice and most of them are built of steel. Airplanes fly .ahead to spot seal herds from the sky. Daily weather reports radioed from Toronto and Washington tell the skipper when to keep his men off the ice. But sealing is still no sport for milksops as any sealer will attest when, huddling behind an ice pinnacle after a ducking, he strips to a cutting wind, wrings out his icy clothes and tugs them back...
...falling in winter are that this is Palestine's rainy season: the Romans would not have then held the census which brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem; nor would the shepherds who gathered around Christ's manger have had their flocks in the fields in such weather...
...baseball team has been meeting with hard luck in its attempts to get its season under way. It was rained out in its first two scheduled games with Columbia and Pennsylvania, and now when the weather man seems ready to furnish baseball weather, Coach Fred Mitchell is stricken...
...these last week made John Businessman sit up and pinch himself to make sure that the amazing upswing in trade since last November was really true. Cornerstone of the improvement, said Dun & Bradstreet, was "the strongest desire to buy that the public has displayed since Wartime days." Despite bad weather in certain sections, the final surge of Easter buying boosted retail sales to the highest level in three years and 70% above last year. Sears, Roebuck reported March sales up 57% from 1933. Spectacular reports were expected from the chainstores...