Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost themselves. A relief party found seven survivors, 18 starved corpses. Lieut. Greely survived to become Major General Greely, builder of telegraph and cable lines, a trustee of the National Geographic Society. The parties of the other nations added to Man's knowledge of weather-forecasting, navigation and Earth's electromagnetic behavior. After adding up the results, the nations scheduled another Polar Year in 50 years...
...might happen. While hogs had re-actecLfrom their highs of late June (TIME, July 11), last week they made up much of the loss. After hogs, cattle began to go up; then hides soared, spurred by the stepping up of shoe production. Then wheat suddenly responded to hot, dry weather in Canada and the U. S. Northwest, to reports of shortages abroad, to the apparent decision of many farmers to hold their wheat for better prices. Last week September wheat (new contracts) sold at 50 3/4 ? against the July 18 low of 46 5/8 ?, theoretically putting...
...There are no good turf courts in France. The courts at Roland Garros Stadium, designed by Charles Bouhana, are of red clay much like En-Tout-Cas ("all weather") courts which are made in the U. S. and elsewhere by En-Tout-Cas Co. Tennis ball specifications for size, weight, thickness of cover are the same all over the world; but because most European players prefer a slower bounce, Dunlap Co., which makes most tennis balls abroad, uses a rubber composition that gives a less lively bounce than the composition used by U. S. manufacturers. European tennis balls last...
According to ancient Greek legend, Aphrodite is remembered as having risen naked from the sea, not in draperies. Also, she was a goddess of fair weather, "giver of prosperous voyages," would not likely have been born in a blizzard...
...more points than his uncle, went for a sail of several miles and turned back. Failing to realize how far he had gone, he passed directly over his original take-off point, landed somewhere else. Had he been aware, he could have made a record for distance-&-return. Flying weather was so good for the first stage of the meet that pilots welcomed two days of doldrums in which to rest, make repairs...