Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howe are ya Phelan today, pretty Gross?" "No nifty. I got a Highmark on my exam and look at the weather. Not a MacLeod in the sky . . . . though Sommers gone it's a regular May Daye, and I Lovett...
...short non-technical talk will be followed, when the weather permits, by telescopic observations of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the staff...
...rowboat, several stevedores, and St. Christopher. Owing to the New York tugboat strike, the Cunard liner did not have its customary twelve pushers as it arrived off the Fiftieth Street pier in early morning sunlight. On its bridge stood Commodore Robert B. Irving who observed the state of the weather and declared it deal, then took out his gold medal of the patron saint of travelers. In his own words" "I looked at his kindly face and asked: 'Shall I do it?" and it seemed the saint smiled at me and replied: 'Carry...
...announced that it would start a new solar observatory atop Burro Mountain, an 8,000-ft. peak in southwestern New Mexico, with Observer Alfred F. Moore in charge. The annual rainfall of ten inches is almost all concentrated in July, August and September, leaving nine months of superb observation weather...
...when he was 27, Maurice Prendergast had saved up $1.000. He arrived in Paris in May, lived for three years on his $1,000. Back in Boston he never lost a chance to go to Revere Beach or Marblehead, when the weather was fine, to paint ships, bathers, surf. His paintings are all blobby, brightly-pied patterns, in a more distinctly personal technique than was developed by most U. S. followers of the French Impressionists, who broke up sunlight into a mist of colors. By 1901, when he painted In Central Park (see cut), he stood high among...