Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter of the cotton crop had been plowed under. For this Agriculture Adjustment Administration was slowly paying out $100,000,000 bonus. Good weather made the yield of the other three-quarters far above normal. Last week spot cotton was selling for a shade over 9? per lb. (last year's price: 7?). Southern planters were demanding currency inflation and 15? cotton. A loose law made possible the pyramiding of the 4.2? per Ib. cotton processing tax from manufacturer to retail consumer, with the result that the A. A. A. last week had to warn the country against profiteering...
...series of evening blasts against the Dollfuss Government. The speeches given by different Nazi spokesmen every evening are particularly annoying to Austrian officials because they know that almost every Austrian farmer listens to them. They come on at 9 p. m. immediately after an excellent, accurate and extremely useful weather forecast for all Southern Germany and Austria. Bottles filled with Nazi leaflets no longer came down the Danube (TIME, Sept. 18), but Austrian Nazis have discovered a new game. With a nail, hammer and patience it is possible to change the geometric design on Austrian five and two groschen copper...
...less chipper about their scores when the results of the National Telegraphic Championship began to come in. The Izaak Walton League of Los Angeles had won the Telegraphic Team Championship with 473. Two Westerners-E. S. Neusch-wander of Los Angeles and George Debes of Houston-shooting under better weather conditions, had bettered Watts' 98 by one target each and Thomas Mairs of Utica had tied...
...natives of the Bible Belt that they are the Lord's chosen people. In a romantic interpretation this is the spirit of the soil, mystical, but nourishing and real. In a materialistic psychology the observer might merely comment that the hinds realize that in prosperity or dearth, fair weather or foul, their lands will feed them and save them from the evils to which their stupid incompetence would lead in harsher circumstances...
...about "love'' was not encouraged. But the hard winter trip to their new home discouraged her, and when they were settled in the little Highland fishing village she did not find it cheerful. The people were dourly suspicious and backslid into heathenry at the slightest excuse; the weather and the scenery were both melancholy. Hamish's days were excitingly full of preaching, coaxing, denunciation; Allison found time to wish there were something more. Then came Andrew, wandering artist, man-of-the-great-world, wounded veteran of Waterloo. Hamish and Allison both delighted in him; his visit lengthened...