Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present state of knowledge concerning the major planet Pluto and the asteroid Eros, both of which have been closely studied of recent months. Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, followed with a talk-on the next New England major eclipse, predicted for August 31, 1932, indicated the eclipse weather prospects and probable meteoric conditions...
...readiness for the opening of college in the fall, no definite date can be set for the completion of the telescope, since it will depend not only upon the time spent on the instrumental itself, but also upon the construction of a small building to protect it from the weather...
Three days of fair Kentucky weather had made the track at Churchill Downs hard and dusty, a strip of yellow cardboard between the high white stands and the infield where, from an immense Maypole, hundreds of small flags slanted to the green turf. Mutuel clerks in their shirt-sleeves leaned in the windows along the brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore...
...submarine Nautilus to the North Pole this summer. Dr. Hugo Eckener may meet him there with the dirigible Graf Zeppelin. If those tours de force come to pass, the world may acquire important stores of meteorological data. Both men want to add to man's knowledge of weather. The Maligin tour is also primarily a weather hunting trip. Indeed the main purpose of every serious current Arctic expedition is to record weather conditions. Both the British and the Germans have had parties on the Greenland ice cap all winter. The German leader. Professor Alfred Wegener, is now considered dead...
Unfavorable weather conditions caused the cancellation or postponement of seven contests scheduled between Harvard and other institutions for last Saturday...