Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step into, instead of crawling into. In the front seat, a chauffer. In the back, two elderly ladies, carefully isolated from the hired helmsman by a glass partition. Black dresses, white lace collars and cuffs. Queen Mary hats. Windows scientifically opened two inches as an official welcome to balmy weather...
...Upon Lindbergh's protest, Minister Cot limited the race to multi-motored planes with radios and extended the start to any time in August. But protests continued to fulminate in the U. S., not only from such transatlantic experts as Dr. James Henry Kimball of the Weather Bureau, but from such authoritative groups as the National Aeronautical Association. Meanwhile 22 flyers, including Amy Johnson Mollison and Dick Merrill, entered the race...
...always been successfully overcome. Last week Douglas Aircraft Co. was busy perfecting a reinforcement for the wing where the de-icer is attached, and B. F. Goodrich Co.. maker of the deicers, was busy hunting for a way to strengthen the rubber. Both promised results by next ice weather...
...active workers in U. S. churches, warm weather annually brings conventions and conferences at which the ways of doing God's work on earth are discussed at length. Livelier than usual were these curtain-raisers of fast week...
...early sometimes to watch the sun rise. The 13th day out of Hawaii he rose before dawn, dressed with his usual care, went forward to his favorite sunrise-watching spot, a door in the bow about 15 ft. above the water, kept open because of the halcyon weather. There he stood and watched the sun rise. As he turned to go, his foot slipped on a grease spot and he fell overboard...