Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Harvard's early presidents, including the first one, Henry Dunster, are here. They are under low, flat, horizontal marble monuments from the upturned surfaces of which the long Latin texts have been nearly completely worn away after over two centuries of weather. Others include the early puritan minister Thomas Shephard, the painter Washington Allston, and the author Richard Henry Dana...
...dramatic, unsolicited windfall came from 76-year-old Banker Thomas William Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. It was almost enough to cover the largest item on the list of needed cathedral reconstruction: $520,000 to repair the roof and reface the Caen stone, damaged by centuries of British weather as well as bombs. (The stone was brought from Normandy to rebuild the 6th Century church which had been destroyed by fire...
...Robert buckled down to designing a special merchant-ship radar. It must, he decided, be nearsighted as well as farsighted. It must be an all-weather, rugged, comparatively cheap instrument, simple enough for any competent officer to operate without a lot of special knowledge and training...
...Atlantic, the scope is generally blank except for "clutter" from nearby waves. The captain can order full speed through the soupiest weather. Obstacles are clearly visible long before they are dangerous...
Meteorologists, like other people, deplore the weather, but some of them have designs on it. General Electric Co. scientists recently announced a discovery which might turn weathermen into active weathermakers...