Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South's greatest peacetime air armadas. "Under my power as Commander in Chief of the Alabama Air National Guard, I am ordering every jet, every C-47 and everything that can roll on wheels, much less, fly, to fly over Jacksonville Dec. 31 in a special weather mission," thundered he. "I hear that the Florida runways are in bad shape and need to be inspected, so these here Alabama planes will give...
However, Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Athletic Department, has defended the H.A.A.'s scheduling of UMass, Bucknell, and Tufts for next year. Getchell also pointed out that the decline in home attendance this year was partly due to bad weather and to the loss of one home game from the schedule...
...Always Fair Weather. A sharp little musical that needles TV-without trying, of course, to burst the Electronic Bubble; with Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey...
Brick Veneer. To get around the disadvantages of conventional bricks, which are heavy, costly to transport, and cannot be laid easily in cold weather, Chicago's Ludowici-Celadon Co. has developed Nail-On, a hard clay brick ¾ in. thick. It can be nailed to a wall through a lip protruding along its top edge; the bottom edge of the next brick overlaps the lip to form a neat joint. Mortar can be applied whenever builder and weather are ready...
...fact is that the best poets now alive are also among the oldest (T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings), and they are not adding significantly to their output. So when a young one comes along who has poet written all over him, the literary weather improves distinctly...