Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first five-year plan, has leveled off and even slightly declined in the past three years-while India's population inexorably rose by 15 million. Interrupting his vacation to drive over to Mussoorie for an All-India Development conference. Nehru listened gloomily to discussions which blamed the weather, poverty and religious scruples for the Indian farmer's lethargy. Abruptly, Nehru broke in with a pet solution of his own: farm cooperatives, partially based on the "Chinese system" but "instituted under democratic conditions...
General Dynamics built the first atomic submarines, Nautilus and Seawolf, produced the Air Force's F-IO2A all-weather interceptor and the B58 Hustler supersonic bomber. It is now developing the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile as well as commercial uses of atomic energy, one of Hopkins' greatest enthusiasms...
Located in a river funnel, the courts collect all the energy of capricious Boston weather and translate it into wind. For the survival of tennis, some form of windbreak is obviously needed. The clearest solution--trees and bushes--would look most pleasant, but due to the cindery bog soil around the courts, topsoil would have to be brought in. This can be done, but requires work and money. It was tried, on a half-hearted scale, with the bushes around the varsity courts. They are dying as their roots are stretching out beyond their small ditchful of humus. A less...
...these statistics, of course, can become meaningless on the whims of the weather. The Crimson's times this year have fluctuated from 8:48 against Syracuse to over 9:30 against Princeton. This last clocking looks somewhat ridiculous compared with the other, but it was accomplished while rowing into the teeth of a typical Charles River gale...
There is the possibility that unfavorable weather may postpone this race until Sunday. Crimson coach Joe Brown commented on this factor: "If we have the same high winds that we have had for the past two weeks, I hope we can postpone the race, as this sort of weather often ruins a race rowed over the Henley distance...