Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashionables noted the 22nd day of faultless weather, noted also an unusually large number of straw hats which had hitherto been regarded as an "indication of vulgar habits of life...
...come about ? It came about principally because of poor weather conditions. The number of acres planted in wheat is less than half of one per cent below last year's acreage, but the expected crop is more than 24% less. The estimated yield (number of bushels per acre) is very low. For winter wheat, it is only 12.4 bushels-less than it has been in 20 years. A cool, dry May was largely responsible...
...Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.) the Norwegian steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A party of aviators aboard her unlashed their two seaplanes and waited for Amundsen's base ship, the Fram, to come back from the icefloes with a weather report before taking off for a flight to inspect horizons further north...
Died. Charles W. Halsey, 48, President of Rogers-Peet Co., famed men's outfitters; in Bronxville, N. Y., of a nervous breakdown. A graduate of Princeton, he obtained a job in 1898 as dbseryer for the U. S. Weather Bureau in New York, obtained later a job as clerk in Rogers-Peet, rose to the Presidency...
...With ten dollars in my pocket, with a change in the weather which permitted bicycle riding, and with the receipt of a check for evening school work, the financial burden of four years suddenly be- came light, and I was able to enter the activities of the last few months with perfect freedom...