Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police boxes in a pinch. In Chicago, big businesses with perishable out-of-town orders put most long distance calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with a message: "Entered plant O.K. Don't worry...
Hindered by the overcrowded facilities which are becoming the normal state of affairs in the teaching of the sciences, the Chemistry Department has nevertheless managed to weather the war years and is gradually reaffirming its former reputation as one of the top departments in the University...
Coach Adolph Samborski will have a chance to measure the depth of his Varsity baseball team's pitching staff in the next few days, weather permitting. The Crimson journeys to Huntington Field, Brookline, for a 3 o'clock contest with Northeastern today, the first of three engagements this weekend...
...started on Saturday afternoon, when Vag was walking past Adams House, rejoicing at the belated arrival of spring weather. From a C-entry room the radio blared forth the progress of the Boston city series, and a horn-rimmed passer-by, recently emerged from the Grolier Book Shop, remarked in disgust, "don't tell me that nonsense is starting again!" Vag smiled contentedly, reflecting for perhaps the thousandth time that Cambridge was one of the few places in America where such sentiments were commonplace...
...weather permits, the talks, which Observatory officials assert will be of a "short, non-technical" nature, will be followed by telescopic observation...