Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brick, as is the rest of the building, tapers sharply towards the top, where the material to be used is wood and darker stone or slate. A belfry in the tower will contain the large bell now used in Harvard Hall; the spire will be topped with a weather vane...
...State Department had been panicky lest anti-Fascist demonstrations mar Signer Grandi's reception. A plan to have him flown from New York harbor by Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh was canceled because of bad weather. In clothes grey as the encircling fog. Minister Grandi & party were taken off the S. S. Conte Grande at Quarantine in a tug, hustled over to a Pennsylvania R. R. pier in Jersey City to a special train. Everywhere were armed guards, special agents, railroad detectives to suppress any hostility. None occurred...
...Baden-Baden, once famed as the rotor ship invented by Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five men, including the two owners, had been drowned...
...flying every day. Last week, with an escort including nine Army planes, John Kerr "Tex" LaGrone, who taught him to fly in 1922, and Mrs. Brock, Dr. Brock took off from Fairfax Airport for his 73Oth consecutive daily flight, a two-year record of flying in all kinds of weather. Sometimes his would be the only plane to leave the ground, so thick was the rain, snow or fog. Although critics might liken his routine to year-round-swimming or marathon tree-sitting, Dr. Brock is not publicity-hungry. He is smart enough to know that his Specialty Optical...
...conversation consisted mostly of pleasantries. There were questions and answers about the weather and its effect on a man so recently come from India as myself...