Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They're in mourning over at the Bandroom, for their Drum is dead. The eight-foot instrument, once the largest playable bass drum in the world, expired last week after a twenty-eight year battle with damp weather which expanded its cowhide sides, and a mammoth drumstick, which contracted them. But the Bandsmen are not spending their time in idle, tearsome reflections--of how the Drum stopper a Yale student who tried to jump through it, of how a Cambridge boy once rode on top, whamming it with the huge drumstick...
...whole the weather was typical of Cambridge: it managed to rain pretty regularly on Saturdays, but a dry January made tradging to Lamont almost bearable. The bad beginning didn't make for for a bad ending, and anyway spring is almost here...
...Britain only a single herd of cows seemed to take any joy in the week's weather. They were watered with an emergency ration delivered in old whisky barrels from a local distillery...
Snow-Happy Start. For Sheila, things started smoothly. Down the autobahn through Frankfurt and past Cologne, the icy concrete was well sanded, no challenge for veteran drivers and all-weather tires...
Across the Atlantic. Iberia has not always flown in such balmy weather. Starting in 1927 with four noisy, German-made, trimotor planes, it made not a single peseta until 1946. After several reorganizations, the original airline went under, after serving the Loyalist cause during the Spanish civil war. Its successor was started in 1937 by Franco, who needed a transport service, and asked Germany's Lufthansa for help. But in World War II, when Britain and the U.S. warned Spain to cancel its agreement with Germany or lose its gasoline supplies, Franco nationalized the company, has since bought...