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Word: weathered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who contemplate seeing our national game in the province where he started it in Japan, I am adding his comment on the weather there-paraphrasing the familiar lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Tonic Weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dickens Operetta | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...world city. Wrote Marie: "We see our selves here under the necessity of becoming saints. We must consent to this change, or perish." Her daily business, however, was to turn little Indian girls into good Catholics, and she went at her job with a will. Smallpox, fire, sub-zero weather, the little Indian girls themselves were obstacles but no more. Mere Marie indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nun Exhumed | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...that he issues categorical decisions, or that he functions as an official transatlantic ship despatcher. All that he will undertake is to inform a waiting flyer when he may expect "reasonably favorable conditions" on his projected course. And that alone means long, laborious work for Dr. Kimball in the Weather Bureau offices atop the Whitehall Building at the lower tip of Manhattan Island. It means working all night, making a weather map from radioed reports received from ships at sea, that a flyer hoping to take off at dawn may have last-minute information. For this service, in addition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Prophet With Honor | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...Kimball's magnum opus is to be a complete daily weather map of the ocean - some day of the upper air. To the completion of that task he is as devoted as a painter to an unfinished canvas. That, he says, is why he has never flown. "I don't believe I ever will. I want to see this work through. I see no reason I should take the extra chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Prophet With Honor | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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