Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen as soon as weather favored. There the chiefs will join her for the great adventure of flying over uncharted white wastes to Nome, Alaska. The base ship Hobby reached Spitzbergen a fortnight ago laden with materials for the Norge's northern bivouac and mooring mast...
...infected oysters; this source was quickly shut off. The fever may be borne by water or milk; but in the large cities the water supplies seem to have been well guarded, the milk supplies too for the most part. Attributing the occasional welling up of typhoid fever to weather conditions seems a weak although favorite argument. On this point study over long periods is necessary. In fact, epidemiologists know they face an intricate problem...
...Weather" comprises a series of six essays upon a variety of subjects of general meteorological interest. The six chapters are essentially the author's Lowell Institute lectures of somewhat over a year ago. Professor McAdie has the faculty of writing in a pleasant, easy style. His attractive little volume of a hundred pages should stimulate an interest in meteorological phenomena and their many human relations. Anyone who gives an hour to the reading of these essays will realize that the science of the atmosphere is by no means altogether made up of a mass of difficult physical and mathematical problems...
Numerous examples of the influence of weather upon military and naval operations are cited n the essay entitled "The Strategy of Weather in War," including not only the older "stock" examples but also several from the Great War. Professor McAdie was Senior Aerographic Officer, U. S. N. R. F., of the Nary during the War, and trained a considerable number of officers at Blue Hill for aerographic work overseas. "Weather in Peace," "The Structure of the Atmosphere," "Clouds, Fogs and Water Vapor," "Lightning," and "Droughts, Floods and Forecasts," are the subjects of the other five essays. There is thus...
...year's Freshman mound ace, toeing the rubber against the Boston University nine on one of the Soldiers Field diamonds. Last night, Coach Mitchell had decided definitely on his starting line-up, and though changes will be frequent throughout the game, the line-up given above will, unless adverse weather conditions ensue, take the field to repulse the B. U. batters today...