Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles F. Brooks, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, attributed the freak weather to a current of tropical air flowing north from the Gulf Stream. He reported a maximum wind velocity of 71 miles an hour at the Observatory...
Next to questions about weather and health, the most often-asked news-question in the U. S. is "How's Business?" Ever since business has been called business, men have sought an inclusive answer to that question-and an answer exclusive of wishful (or fearful) opinion...
...weird, barbarous decorations were covered with plaster. In the nineteenth century, when the building had passed into private hands and fallen into neglect, the roof collapsed and the plaster began to crumble away. Fortunately, about ten years ago, the paintings were removed before they had been ruined by the weather. Two of them, a superb lion and a winged serpent, now flank the doorway of the entrance of the Cloisters, a newly opened branch of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Fogg Museum's newly acquired fresco has been transferred to a canvas and certain missing portions have been sparingly...
Harvard's pioneer experimentation with automatic radio meteorograph balloons, for upper air soundings, after three years has resulted in widespread use of such instruments for regular weather observations, Professor Charles F. Brooks, director of the Blue Hill Observatory, of Harvard, said yesterday in his annual report...
This week, weather permitting, the U. S. Bureau of Lighthouses planned to test a set of similar radio buoys in Boston Harbor as channel markers for harbor pilots steering through...