Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it."--So said Mark Twain before the Hurricane of 1938 had forced men to do a lot about it--Picking up the wreckage. Harvard, alas, while clearing the debris in short order, has failed to realize its duty of training students in meteorology, the science of weather. True, the University does list five half-courses in this subject for undergraduates, but each one is given by Professor--, assisted by Mr.--, omitted 1938-1939, and for an indefinite period thereafter...
This is unfortunate. Harvard should not underestimate the importance of meteorology in business, science, and everyday life. In aviation, where the factor of safety plays such a large part, the greatest variable is the weather; and until technical instruments are radically improved, men and planes will surely come to grief. The weather is a basic factor in the creation of what is euphemistically known as the national dividend. It can harass a farmer, make or break his harvest; it can ruin an otherwise good haul of fishermen, or wash out incredibly expensive roadways. All this destruction could be mitigated with...
...Kirkland-Winthrop clash was characterized chiefly by fumbles, largely due to the unusually cold weather. Winthrop began in good style when Ham Smith, Puritan center, fell on a bobbled Deacon punt in the first quarter...
Thus last week ended the Eighth National Eucharistic Congress of U. S. Roman Catholics. At the four-day meeting in New Orleans were most of the U. S. hierarchy, thousands of priests and laity. The weather was persistently bad. Once the rain poured down during an open-air mass which could not be interrupted, and which ended with a blessing broadcast from Castel Gandolfo by Pope Pius...
Commodore Robert Beaufin Irving, the ship's greying, trained-in-sail skipper, gave credit where credit seemed due-to the balmy weather and to St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers. No Roman Catholic, but a stanch Covenanter, Commodore Irving totes two St. Christophers, one a statue given him by a Galway pilot, the other a medal from a passenger. Swore he: "I spun that medal around and said, 'Well, St. Chris, what about it?' He said, 'Go to it.' " Next day sheepish operators and tug hands came to a hasty agreement. Said chagrined Tsar Ryan...