Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weather Bureau last week reported that the 1930 drought in the East and Midwest was "the most severe in the climatological history of the U. S.," was able to give no "conclusive or comprehensive" explanation of its causes...
...than a column of fine type in The Sunday Herald. And that is not the whole story. Many men are at it whose performances do not call for the attention of sporting editors. The season begins in earnest after the Harvard-Yale football game, and from then until warmer weather the number of men who use the courts every day is high in the hundreds...
...short of her destination and was towed the remaining distance, there have been rumors that the twelve Curtiss Conqueror engines had not served well enough to warrant a transatlantic flight. These rumors the Brothers Dornier, Claude and Maurice, vigorously denied. But finally they did concede that bad weather on the Azores-Bermuda route had upset their plan to fly to New York. Instead, they planned to send the DO-X across the South Atlantic to Brazil. At that juncture Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, U. S. copilot, resigned. He had been loaned for the flight by Dornier Corp. of America...
...snout like a pelican's beak, a head like an elephant. He found no fur. Six feet of flesh were preserved. Foxes and Eskimo dogs had eaten the rest. Since scientists were still puzzled, part of the huge carcass was taken to Cordova. So soon as weather conditions permit, Dr. Bunnell and helpers will go to Cordova, look the monster over carefully...
...Aldworth, U. S. A. retired, tall, solemn, redheaded director of Newark Airport. Three hours later he departed with fingers cramped from scribbling 25 pages of answers to the deaf inventor's questions; also with the knowledge that Inventor Edison proposes to attack the problem of flying in dirty weather. As preface to the interview Inventor Edison, who had summoned Lieut. Aldworth, piloted him across the room, read aloud to him the words on a brass plaque hanging on the wall: "There is no expedient a man will not resort to, to avoid the real labor of thinking." Then...