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Word: weathering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good start, dish up something worthy of record. As for the yarn in question, there are plenty of other farmers in Alaska who have taken the same rap without bothering to shift their quid to discuss it. And 35 below is practically corn-growing weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...captured by Deutschland. All remaining hands perished when, after burning four hours, Rawalpindi turned turtle to starboard and foundered. Another British cruiser, speeding to the scene, was too late to catch the raiders, who slipped away in stormy darkness. Search for them, said the Admiralty, "is continuing in tempestuous weather both night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Raiders | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...true criteria of air superiority as between antagonists of nearly equal factory strength. New types, new maneuvers, new arms as developed by one side or the other will determine balance-of-power in the air from time to time, rather than sheer quantitative production. Meantime, with clearing weather and clearer plans last week, the air forces of both sides went at each other in the greatest numbers yet. As usual, claims made by both sides diverged widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Importance of Being Willy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Observatory mathematicians today brought support to the statistics by which Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., believes he has shown that there are important periodic changes in the sun's radiation, predictably affecting the earth's weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABBOT THEORY BACKED BY MATHEMATICIANS | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...Socks reaching just below the knee, launched as a successor to ubiquitous ankle socks, have not caught on, although cold weather may bring them out. A Chicago girl wearing them was stared at. Wellesley finds them "very unflattering to legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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