Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours after the Squalus went down the Navy had every available expert and rescue device on the scene. Calm weather was a godsend. At 10:15 a.m. Diver Martin Sibitzky went over the side of the Falcon and was lowered to. the deck of the Squalus. Under the terrible pressure in icy water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly...
Last week fine spring weather spread warmly over a sunlit Europe. In Norway, where the nights now are like dim, water-green, translucent twilights; in England, where the potato crop is doing well thanks to the rains in May; in Switzerland, where the yodeling festival is a high spot of the Zurich Fair; in Paris, where they are singing One Fine Day from Madame Butterfly and dancing to Chopin's Seconde Étude played as a tango; in Warsaw, where the officers called up are whiling away the time between crises learning to play bridge; in Belgium, where they...
...times were slow because of the poor weather conditions," commented Coach Blake after the races. Blake said that poor weather has been about the only dark cloud on the singles horizon this spring...
Hampered by the protest weather in years spring rowing at Weld Bost House reached the peak of the spring season with the University Regatta last week...
Rowing over a three-quarter mile course instead of the usual mile, due to poor wind conditions, H. F. Atherton eked out a narrow victory over Peter Cunningham in the senior singles. His time was 5:29, comparatively slow because of the unfavorable weather...