Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop Here have peered at honorable opposition, will fix destiny tomorrow stop Occult art have been employed by Digest Poll to predict income, but money few and distant stop In blue funk stop Rose, felt ill this morning, atmosphere too warm for long stay stop Tomorrow will wish for weather more coolish, proceed to Tigerville to eat curry with laymen stop Will arrive Cambridge midnight, son I Fling accompanies stop Must have $100, depend statement coming. (signed) H. Flung Huey...
...which the poll will give in forming the opinions of the voters that its real value lies. In general students declare for candidates without the reflection and information which should precede the decisions of intelligent persons. They are influenced by the desire to be different, and become fair weather radicals, or they dismiss the issues as not involving them, oblivious of the fact that they are destined to become the leaders in this failing democracy, and that some preparation for leadership is necessary. If the CRIMSON poll is successful, it will draw student interest to the important events...
...weather permits, the afternoon session will be held at the new Oak Ridge station of the Harvard Observatory at Harvard. This will be the first meeting of any importance to take place at the new Observatory, which was dedicated early last September. Following the election of officers and council members, opportunity will be given for the presentation and discussion of papers. Tea will be served at the invitation of Dr. and Mrs. Shapley at 4.30 o'clock. The meeting will adjourn at 5.30 o'clock for the return to Cambridge...
Little though it was known outside of Asia. China was rancid with cholera this summer, a pestilential menace to the rest of the globe. By last week, as cold weather crept over the country, the trouble was subsiding. Remembered then was the prediction of Dr. J. H. Jordan. British Commissioner of Public Health of the Shanghai International Settlement, that the disease, which is always skulking in China, would be especially virulent this year. Some 500,000 Chinese contracted the disease, some 150,000 died (Dr. Jordan's estimate). Last July Dr. Robert Watson Hart, chief of the American Oriental...
...only control the pilot has over his balloon is up & down. He valves gas to descend, drops ballast to rise. His skill is measured by his judgment of weather conditions and his ability to find favoring winds with the least use of his two tools, gas and ballast. A U. S. team won the 1913 Bennett race from Paris when, instead of grounding before they reached the Atlantic as did all other balloons, they continued out to sea, knowing they would strike a wind that would carry them northeast to England. This year all gas bags carried radios to receive...