Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...During the first part of the period the University team was on the offence against the University substitutes. Feltton was at his old position at left end. Wendell was not in the line-up on account of a very minor injury, and Wigglesworth is still a little under the weather. For the last part of the practice the first team lined up in defensive formation and Huntington went in at center...
Coach Sexton has decided to hold fall baseball practice this year as long as the weather will permit. Candidates will be called out in a few days and the work will be harder than usual, as a permanent reduction in the squad will be made so that next spring the development of the team will not be hampered by the necessity of weeding out useless material...
...that day. He used a Nieuport monoplane with a 70 horse-power Gnome engine, and it was the prettiest machine on the field, as well as one of the speediest. On the second day of the meet, however, it was Beachey who was the centre of interest. The weather was unfavorable for flying, being cloudy and threatening with a small gale blowing, but in spite of this he ascended some 2,000 feet in his Curtis biplane, and pointing it into the wind, against which he could make no headway, he remained stationary in the air. He descended...
...weather proved a bar to flying the next three days, but on the following day the meet was resumed with many brilliant performances. The chief event was the flight to Boston Light. This event was competed four different days, three prizes, aggregating $2,500 daily, being offered each time. This year there were five machines entered as against only one last year. The course consisted of once around the field, and twice around the light and back, a dictance of 33 miles. On this day, Sopwith took first and Ovington second, although Grahame-White made the fastest time only...
...final day of the meet the weather permitted Grahame-White to show the real speed of his Nieuport monoplane and he covered the Boston Light course, a distance of 33 miles, in the remarkable time of 27 minutes, 35 1-5 seconds...