Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going back because I prefer American working conditions. I am getting on in years and when the weather is bad and I am feeling ill, I appreciate the privilege of staying away from my laboratory without resorting to a lot of unpleasant red tape to get official permission...
Anyone who was growing up in Eastern Europe in 1916 could hardly avoid experiences that in peacetime would seem abnormal. Lola Kinel, a Polish girl whose family lived in Petrograd, had no more than her share of Wartime and post-War cyclones, but to U. S. readers the weather she lived through seems stormy indeed. A cut above the usual adventure-autobiography, This Is My Affair should appeal to those who find true stories as readable as novels and often more entertaining...
...Burbank. Aboard were two pilots, pretty Hostess Yvonne Trego, and nine passengers, including a member of Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra, an artist from Walt Disney's studio and young Edward Thomas Ford Jr., son of the vice president of the Grace Lines, with his pretty wife. The weather was not bad: at Bakersfield the ceiling was 3,500 ft., at Burbank 3,000 ft. The peaks on both sides of the course were garlanded with scattered clouds. Delayed slightly, Pilot Edwin W. ("Soapy") Blom, a veteran of 18 years' flying, radioed Burbank that he would arrive...
Best moments: Norma meeting Rosmer while he is shaving in a train compartment; the insurance company marching to the train, singing the Life Insurance Song. Best of the Harburg and Arlen numbers: Speaking of the Weather, Let's Put Our Heads Together...
...consequence has been accomplished by its members in a quarter of a century. The Class has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one who later became Prime Minister. Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda. We have only one Weather Man who advocates the "frontal method" (three dimensions) over the "surface method" (two dimensions). In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...