Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boat Race crowd-anywhere from 300,000 to 1,000,000, depending on the weather-is usually the biggest sports crowd of the year. Last week it was not so large as usual because the tides made it impossible to hold the race on a Saturday. The disturbances in London which always mark Boat Race evening were correspondingly more jolly. Three record-breaking trials had put Oxford undergraduates in fine fettle before the race was rowed. To celebrate, they rioted so jubilantly in the theatres that performances were stopped, tried as usual to raze the statue of Eros in Piccadilly...
...Western airliner which had taken off from Camden, N. J. in perfect mechanical condition with ten passengers, two pilots and a hostess, bound for Pittsburgh's Allegheny Airport. At the wheel was 32-year-old Captain Frederick Lawrence Bohnet, a TWA veteran. The sky was overcast but the weather relatively smooth. Flying above the clouds Capt. Bohnet brought his big ship to Pittsburgh without trouble. At 6:33 p. m. he crossed the airport "cone of silence" at 5,000 ft. out of sight of ground. He was ordered to circle once while another plane came in. "Okay...
Presenting the most accurate and complete data yet available for this region, the new "encyclopedia" is expected to be of use to weather scientists in their predictions and in research on origins of various climatic phenomena. Prepared largely by Charles F. Brooks '11, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, the survey has been published as part of a massive German handbook of climatology which upon completion will present the important weather facts of the whole world...
Having just arrived from England with its mists, he was immensely pleased with the "clear air" here. "Exceptionally beautifully weather!" he exulted. The real joy of his visit, though, is the swimming pool in the Indoor Athletic Building, about which he was enthusiastic. "You know, I love swimming...
FORTUNE concludes: 1) that the errors of pilots could be corrected by inaugurating more rigid training in instrument flying; 2) that the Department of Commerce should immediately double its radio beacon ranges and Weather Bureau stations; 3) that the Government should simplify flying regulations; 4) that the operators should speedily develop an infallible blind landing system...