Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other foreign missionaries. Through Clarence W. Jones of Oklahoma City, missionary scouting in Ecuador, they gained a 25-year permit for a powerful station HCJB at Quito, Ecuador's capital. Programs will be evangelical and educational. A concession to the Ecuadorian Government: four hours a week for agricultural data, weather reports, political news...
...Hobart Ames big plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn., over rolling country and meadowland covered with Japanese clover, the best bird dogs in the U. S. had trouble. The weather was warm and grey; rain threatened. Rex's Tar-heelia, Rumson Farm Queen, Junedale Lady Bird made some mistakes. Some of the dogs were pointing land turtles and stink-birds; several times deer interfered with the trials. Yankee Doodle Jack, black & white setter, looked best with six bevies and a single, but Shore's Carolina Jack was still in it. A wonderful last day might...
Manhattanites luxuriating last week where the weather was warm thanked the good fortune which enabled them to escape an influenza epidemic so severe, according to outland newspapers, that the Metropolitan Opera House had been forced to close...
Scientists still laugh at people who locate water with a witch-hazel branch and foretell a man's way of life by the stars present at his birth. But last week in Manhattan, U. S. chemists apologized for having laughed at people who predict the weather by feelings in their feet. They awarded the William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society to Dr. John Arthur Wilson, 40, consulting chemist of Milwaukee. Wis. Dr. Wilson was judged worthy of the medal (given for outstanding achievement in colloid chemistry) for his seven years' study of leather...
...about the weather. The weather bureau is in Washington...