Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huntington '34, with a handicap of seven inches, won first place in the high jump at 5ft. 7in. in the Fall Handicap Track Meet. The high jump, which was the only event not postponed until today on account of wet weather, took place in the old cage...
...whistle had blown five long blasts in the morning, meaning that because the wind was light there would be no race that day. Since the day Gertrude L. Thebaud won the first race (TIME, Oct. 20), the fishing schooners had planned often to race, but accidents, repairs and bad weather put them off. Finally last week came a short, silvered sea and a nor'wester of 20 knots...
...Lieut. William W. Caldwell. Over the Rockies flew the couriers, into a Wyoming blizzard. Lieut. Woodring emerged, after two forced landings. Not until landing in Cleveland next day did he learn that his escort lay dead 70 mi. west of Cheyenne. In the "zero-zero" (no ceiling, no visibility) weather, Lieut. Caldwell had crashed into a fence post trying to land. With bad weather still ahead of him over the Alleghenies, Lieut. Woodring prudently transferred to a consolidated Fleetster piloted by a brother officer, landed at Mitchel Field, N. Y. two nights before the Leviathan's sailing...
...floor, though she grew somewhat sweeter aft. Above the waterline, she was lovely. . . . She was the last achievement in sailing-ship building and rigging: nothing finer had been done, or ever was done." But her very first voyage started with disaster. While still under tow she ran into heavy weather which thickened rapidly into a hurricane, parted her from her tug and left her riding helpless. The storm whipped her new rigging to shreds. Some gear swinging loose killed her captain. The blow over, she limped back to Liverpool for repairs...
...poem written by "Lncio" and published in the Manchester Guardian Weekly, an English magazine adds a little more to the sound thinking behind the "shorts" movement which is not dead now, but only dormant during the colder weather...