Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reserve Air Base yesterday, in accordance with the new plan of the department to furnish all Juniors in the course at least one opportunity a year to receive some practical instruction in naval aviation. Other groups of Juniors will go up at more or less irregular intervals, as the weather permits, for the remainder of the current year...
...whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present the air of Massachusetts is filled with a dark brown taste, and the sky is overcast. A Princeton catalogue makes good reading...
...Mudguards are now made in a detachable form and can be removed in good weather as easily as taking off one's collar and tie. Handlebars are now all made with a downward curve, since it has been found that this adds to comfort as well as to speed in pedaling...
...House Plan once an abstraction is now a reality in brick and mortar and circumstances are at work moulding the "corporate personality" of every House from within while wind and weather and the long suffering ivy are giving the sanction of age to the naked glory without. It is inevitable and desirable that each House should develop its own individual tradition but it should not do so at the expense of any of its legitimate and important functions...
Proponents of industrialized farming saw little significance in Hickman Price's receivership. They pointed out that it was weather, not prices which ruined him. They feel that with fair conditions and, perhaps, more operating experience, Hickman Price could have raised wheat cheaply enough to weather even last week's low prices. They see a lesson in the fact that he failed to diversify his crops. Such large-scale farmers as Montana's Thomas Donald Campbell believe that farm corporations of the future must own land in three or more parts of the U. S. to insure themselves...