Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday's scheduled game between the Crimson and Green nines, postponed on account of wet weather, will be played this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock provided the field is dry enough, it was decided late yesterday by the H. A. A. The team then journeys to Hartford, where it meets Trinity College tomorrow afternoon in its last contest before the first Yale encounter at New Haven on Tuesday...
...When the weather map showed winds from the south, pilots of the six balloons about to cast off from Omaha in the annual National Balloon Race scurried about for firearms, fishing tackle, emergency rations. Prizes of the race were the Litchfield Trophy and third place on the U. S. team for the international races next September.† With south winds, to win might mean sailing far into the Canadian wilds...
...Congress voted to make Rome a clearing house for oceanic flying weather data, elected General Balbo president, chose Manhattan for the next meeting, got medals from Premier Mussolini, adjourned...
...channel through which seaplane hulls are whisked 60 m.p.h by an electric towing car. He had thought about it many times since then. Last week he gazed at it again, finally asked if he might have a ride. With Dr. Charles Frederick Marvin, 73. chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Aeronaut Wright climbed aboard the car which straddles the channel, grinned happily as it scooted along, throwing spray from its towing apparatus. (Next day Mr. Wright visited Kitty Hawk. N. C.; strolled about Kill Devil Hill where he and his late brother Wilbur made the first airplane flight...
...courageous flight, counseled by wise Bernt Balchen, Miss Earhart became not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds...