Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bermuda samples of Australian wines were stacked ready to be rushed to Manhattan. There are no Australian vintage years because, Australians eagerly explain, "the weather is so perfect that every year is the same." Anxious not to offend the King's subjects down under, the Encyclopædia Britannica puts Australian wines in their place with a maximum of tact: "The plentiful supply of cheap grape brandy makes it possible for Australia to send to England ever increasingly large quantities of fortified wines [i. e. dosed with brandy], wines which being rich in natural grape sweetness...
...brown uniform," cried Colonel Roehm, "is completely unsuitable as a field uniform. It offers no protection against inclemency of the weather. I don't believe that an unprejudiced military expert of any army in the world could honestly designate the brown uniform as one practical for war. . . . I deny that the Storm Troops can be regarded as a military force! . . . Today almost the entire youth of England, France, Italy, the United States, Poland and Russia are not only clothed in uniforms which correspond to the respective Army uniforms in cut, but they are openly being trained by active...
Then you suggest that that academic credit should not be given for Military or Naval Science because they are "trade courses" and not liberal arts. Then what in thunder do you mean by "liberal" when, if you thumb through the University catalogue, you will find listed courses on "Musicology," "Weather-forecasting," "Aesthetics," "Sensation," "Accounting," and three on "Sanitary Engineering." You will also find, near the top of the list of academic seniority, a "Professor of Syphills, Emeritus...
...open the Conference at 6 p. m. Alighting from their limousines in a sudden squall of wind and rain, delegates of 21 American nations clutched their silk hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm out of the fashionable crush before President Terra took the rostrum. Their empty seats touched off pinwheels of rumor that "Paraguay has withdrawn...
Amid warm congratulations. Dr. Van de Graaff announced calmly that the voltage reached was about 7,000,000-a record for man-made lightning.* But to him the test, though spectacular and successful, was simply another step toward a final objective. If unfavorable weather had not forced him to hold his show indoors, he would have had the trucks moved outside where, with none of the stored electricity sparking into hangar walls and beams, he could have counted on 10,000,000 volts...