Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machines is tested by their qualifications for the goal of maximum output. Most functions of present-day government can be subjected to this test, but some of the oldest and most important functions of government cannot be. Governments not only produce goods, e.g., Navy yard warships, and services, e.g., weather forecasts; they also produce a reflection of the national will, the national sense of justice and policy...
...happened, said Dr. Namias, to the "planetary air current" the great, sinuous river of high-altitude wind that sweeps around the earth in temperate latitudes. It flows in waves like a shaken rope, and the position and size of the waves is a controlling factor in Northern Hemisphere weather...
...other side of the Atlantic the climate is growing warmer too, but the mild winters of the past decade are not the only result. Last week Jerome Namias of the U.S. Weather Bureau told a New York meeting of the American Meteorological Society that the warming of the climate may be what steers more hurricanes toward the U.S. East Coast...
Huge, dark, and ornate, Memorial Hall rules its triangle kingdom with a firm Victorian hand. Despite the abuse of words and weather, the Hall continues to stand regally as a reminder of Harvard students who died in the Civil...
...make mention of the walks in the Yard has come to be, in the course of College generations, as bad form as to talk about the weather. But though we realize this we would fain make a suggestion. Apparently it is impossible to keep the walks dry, by subsurface drainage. But a certain amount of labor, applied promptly, in proper quantity, and with intelligence, would often take its place...