Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing the issue of the weather squarely, House dining halls promulgated a series of hot-weather fashion rules, varying slightly from House to House...
While all Cambridge peeled off clothing and waited for the promised thunder-showers yesterday evening, the U. S. Weather Bureau was forecasting for today the first break in the sweltering heat wave which has held the Boston area in its grip since Saturday...
...year's first run on what the trade calls "hammock literature" was reported by one bookstore. Comes the hot weather, they said, and college students start to catch up on their light reading. Arnold Toynbee's "Study of History" was named as a definitely cold weather book, while the sweltering reader picks up P. G. Wodehouse, or Faith Baldwin...
...sharing in the general optimism were the restaurants. An owner explained that when the weather takes a turn for the sultry, the amount of dinning hall checks falls off steadily. Beer consumption shoots up, but this is more than balanced by the lessened demand for hard liquor...
...Heavy Weather. In Belle Isle, Mich., Motorist Kenneth Blue concluded that the rain was getting much too heavy when his wiper failed to keep water off the windshield, stepped out to investigate, had to swim ashore from the 10 ft. deep lagoon into which he had driven...