Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin says she "knows that the inscrutable hand of Providence guides" her husband, and Mr. Baldwin is not alone in thinking she is right. He was last week the absolutely ideal Prime Minister to weather an English crisis by applying precisely those qualities of bulldog smugness which have strewn his career in foreign affairs with disaster after disaster and are today threatening to gum the works of British Rearmament and imperil the Empire (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante). Again & again Mr. Baldwin has told the House of Commons that "my lips are sealed" until this has become a 1936 British...
...Croydon Airport, on a night so clogged by fog that most commercial aircraft had been grounded, and with the weather turning so cold that wing ice was a peril, the risk of taking off for France was resolutely taken by Theodore Goddard, head of the law firm which obtained Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi (TIME, Nov. 2), and chunky Dr. William Douglas Kirkwood, a pre-eminent London gynecologist...
Latest reports from the Boston Weather Bureau indicate that temperatures over the weekend will rise giving possibilities of rain or a few snow flurries in Norther New England. Reports from Mt. Washington, Mr. Mansfield, Mr. Cardigan, and Gunstock Range indicate several inches of heavy snow on top of a hard crust. While reports are not favorable for the weekend's skiing, it must be remembered that last weekend conditions changed late Friday night making good skiing. This may happen again...
...demands which local Chinese officials pluckily rejected as "unreasonable and fantastic," Japanese war boats rushed into port to menace Tsingtao further with their big guns. The Japanese marines moved forward to seize the city's water works, then moved back as 3,000 Chinese troops approached. Sudden freezing weather came and 36,000 locked-out Chinese millworkers shivered, railing at the warm Japanese millowners...
Continuing the policy inaugurated last year, the CRIMSON will run a Ski page every Friday morning throughout the skiing season. This will have the latest available reports on weather and snow conditions in New England as well as occassional articles by well known skiers. Old Man Winter and other authorities have offered their help again so that readers of the CRIMSON will be insured the latest and most accurate information obtainable. Any suggestions would be more than welcome...