Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodring, last of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers." Time and again the 18 Boeings roared down from the sky to smite the bombers. Heartened by the armada's proud showing the commanding officers determined to try another demonstration over Manhattan en route to Washington, should the weather there turn fair. In any event, Assistant Secretary Davison could point with pride to the Army's getting its 672 planes across the mountains and up the coast without losing a man or machine. With ten days more for mobilization to continue, caution had thus far averted...
...took the Wegener party 40 days to sledge over the 250 mi. between the two camps. Temperature was 65° below Zero F. When they reached central station Dr. Loewe's feet were frozen. All his toes had to be cut off. Weather was so terrible that it was unwise for anyone to risk return to the coast. But only enough food remained to support three men until the end of May. Professor Wegener insisted that he and Rasmus leave. They rested a day and a half, then started back to the coast. But before they started they joined...
...Greenland hurricane, such as cause most of Europe's and North America's "weather," was roaring. The German and the Eskimo leaned into the wind. The dogs kept their ears back and their bellies close to the ice. They got 40 mi. from the central station. Then Professor Wegener died. Rasmus carefully buried him and marked the grave with the upright skis. The finders of the body last week placed it on a sledge. Around and over the sledge they built a mausoleum of ice blocks. Then they went hunting for Rasmus. For a space his spoor...
Evidently finding the scorching weather a tonic for the batting eye, a vicious Harvard baseball nine went on a hitting spree last Saturday at Providence, and it took the best efforts of two Brown pitchers to confine the visiting nine to 15 bits and a 10 to 2 run victory. The game was a flashy spectacle from start to finish, with the free hitting of the winning Harvard batsmen being offset by the professional in fielding of the Bruin basemen, who staged four fast double plays during the tilt. Mac Hale garnered his second victory of the season over Brown...
...Harvard lightweights, who were very closely second to Navy in the trials, were hampered by the rought weather in the afternoon, when the finals were held...