Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school spends $200 in preparing for an outdoor pageant. In case of rain, the $200 will all be lost: but, if the weather is fair, the pageant will give a profit of $400. To protect itself against loss, the school takes out insurance against rain. The insurance policy is for a definite sum paid for by the school at a definite percentage of the amount of the policy. After paying the cost of the insurance, it is calculated that in case of rain the school will clear 3/10 of the amount for which it is insured, and that in case...
...preconvention manager, turned up early in Chicago where he began dangling vice-presidential bait before lesser candidates. He hired the presidential suite at the Congress Hotel. Would Candidate Roosevelt go to Chicago, appear before a deadlocked convention to win the nomination? At Albany the Governor laughed, talked of "hot weather reports," would not say yes or no. John E. Mack, Poughkeepsie Democrat, onetime State Supreme Court justice, was selected as the Roosevelt nominator...
Inhaled Ions. Harvard's assistant professor of industrial hygiene Constantin Prodromes Yaglou is studying the effects of atmospheric electricity on health. The de pendence of gout and rheumatism, among other ailments, on weather conditions seem related to the electric charge, or ion con tent, of the air. In an empty, well-ventilated room the ionization is the same as outdoors, but falls off rapidly in crowded rooms. Dr. Lewis Richard Roller described a machine to count the ions in a room, another to bring the ions up to a healthy ratio. Unless there is something in nature beyond human perception...
...maturity. And he must have noted with regret the passing of the Sears, Roebuck dividend. Commentators saw this omission as the company's opinion that the grain markets will not rally soon. Principal grains last week had lost their recent advances and were slumping to new lows on good weather reports. Cotton held its gains more tenaciously. Oil was firm but the bright spot in commodities last week was a 13-day advance in raw sugar futures which whipped the price from 57¢ to 90?...
...what few professional golfers think is worth the trouble: he went into training. By eating vegetables and drinking water he removed 15 Ib. from his stumpy little figure. He was training to win the British Open, so he practiced on windy days at seaside courses because he expected bad weather abroad. When Sarazen went out to qualify at Sandwich last week, there was scarcely a breeze. He got in comfortably with a 149, a few strokes back of Tommy Armour, the defending champion...