Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seismographs can now predict the weather...
...time World War II came along, Partridge, already a respected amateur weather prophet, turned pro. The Coast Guard offered him a special commission as a meteorologist and he became, at 64, one of the oldest lieutenants (jg) in the service. In 1946, when WOR went to the Weather Bureau for a likely station weatherman, the Bureau promptly suggested Partridge...
...Bureau's admiration for Partridge is reciprocated. He would "never go against the Weather Bureau," but once in a long while he does blue-pencil official forecasts that strike him as debatable...
...large, Nemo is an optimist: a heavy flood will bring forth a dissertation on the raindrop ("a masterpiece of jewel-like workmanship"), and "green sky is a double delight . . . beautiful to look upon and always suggesting fair weather." Even the Big Snow of '47 left him undismayed. After it was all over, he found it "fair, COLD, SPARKLING, STIMULATING, PERFECT! Dazzling white snow, sky of blue...
...Weather control. 5. Death rays...