Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondent on the field in the final Leftist assault on Teruel last week was the New York Tiniest much favored Herbert L. Matthews (once awarded a cross by Fascist Italy). Moving forward on the last day with a supporting column he reported that a sudden change in the weather had almost entirely melted the blinding snows of the first day of the attack, noted a pair of happy dogs gamboling ahead of the grim advancing line of skirmishers, announced that in this entire advance of 50,000 Leftist troops he saw but one foreign officer, a Bulgarian. Suddenly...
Charles A. Rheinstorm, vice president of American, answered: "It is definitely not true that we have a higher peak on our airway than United has on theirs.'' Mr. Patterson's remark about sunshine hurt Mr. Rheinstorm. "People usually concede that winter weather in the south is better than winter weather in the north, and the only people who are not willing to concede that are the United people...
...California, he says, the weather is always equally good so the vintage years are always the same. When he is accused of plagiarizing French wine names he claims indignantly that Burgundy is as much a descriptive word as whiskey. He also enjoys pointing out that when the disease Phylloxera virtually wiped out European vineyards between 1870 and 1880, the only thing that saved them was grafting European grape vines on the root stock of the wild vine of California...
...London weather should be nice. Last week Bertie's real birthday was celebrated in Buckingham Palace. The King was 42 and to the party came 90 British children to romp with His Majesty's daughters. Princess Elizabeth & Princess Margaret Rose. There were tea & cakes in the Royal Picture Gallery and a performance by the Scottish Children's Theatre-which consists of six coy adults who recite Mother Goose rhymes in costume. No. 1 guest moppet was H. R. H. Prince Edward, two-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and 5th in line...
With an average of four inches of new snow falling throughout New Hampshire and Vermont yesterday, skiing prospects are good for the weekend, providing the weather remains the same. According to latest reports, however, rain and a rise in temperature is expected...