Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was warm. Streams were rounding into form and trout were biting. In crowded Manhattan, this generation's Dead End Kids performed summer's immemorial rite and dove into the East River (see cut). Baseball was going full blast and the sports fiends had a startling topic of conversation-old Connie Mack had his A's up on top after 17 years in cold storage. The hammock season was almost here. Just at the moment, it looked like a beautiful morning...
After finishing the fall season with a comfortable lead, the Mastodons lost a sizable portion of their margin to Winthrop, which emerged as cold weather club of considerable minor sport power. Paradoxically, spring affected the Puritans, who lapsed into an enervated slump, while the Elephants trundled home with the silverware...
...golf competitions, forced to an abortive conclusion by inclement weather and impending exams, Dunster and Leverett tied for first with Winthrop, Adams, Eliot, and Kirkland knotted at third, and Lowell placed a poor last...
...wings; it cannot fly or even move. But crewmen shut in its cockpit (a copy of the cockpit in Pan Am's new Boeing Clippers) experience nearly all the horrors that can overtake a pilot. They are at the mercy of an unseen instructor who can "simulate" violent weather and faithless machinery...
What else does television offer? Mostly a routine stew of quiz shows, man-in-the-street interviews, cooking lessons galore, charades, fashion shows, vaudeville turns, illustrated weather forecasts, and pickups of radio broadcasts (beginning June 1 We the People will be seen as well as heard). And then there are films, the wilted coleslaw on television's bill of fare. The ancient cabbages that are rolled across the telescreen every night are Hollywood's curse on the upstart industry. Televiewers, sick of hoary Hoot Gibson oaters and antique spook comedies, wonder when, if ever, they will see fresh...