Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely Der Führer admitted last week that a dozen rasping speeches, plus hours standing with right arm rising and falling as the party members passed in review are always a "personal and physical strain," and he welcomed the cool weather in Nürnberg. "When you keep moving your arm up and down in salute for hours at a stretch, you generate heat," Hitler laughed. "This continuous movement, coupled with the emotional strain, is very trying in hot weather...
...breeding spot for a special kind of sleeping sickness. This type of encephalitis first appeared four years ago at St. Louis, laid 1,000 low, killed 200 directly or by rendering them susceptible to heart failure or pneumonia. That epidemic subsided with the passing of 1933's hot weather, and there was no notable reappearance of the disease until this summer. By last week it had claimed...
...mile-and-a-half down the beach, moved it to its present position. A partially obliterated date and three letters at the tail end of a word were its only markings. When he was transferred to Honolulu he continued his quest, by chance finding the answer in the blurred, weather-stained pages of a magazine published almost three-quarters of a century...
...Hoover Airport, which the Airline Pilots' Association this summer declared unsafe. In his veto message the President suggested that instead of trying to improve an inadequate field, a new airport be developed at Gravelly Point, "Within ten minutes of the centre of Washington . . . for use in all good weather. . . ." Since low-lying Gravelly Point has many river fogs, he also recommended a second field farther away for use when flying conditions were unfavorable...
...Asturian troops were in full flight before them, 5,000 surrendering at the port town of Lanes. The Vatican had recognized the Rightist State. Off the tables of Marshal Pietro Badoglio in Rome was generally expected a new plan of attack by which Madrid would be captured before cold weather set in. The Leftist offensive against Saragossa seemed flopping like a flounder...