Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were ruined by frightful storms, temperatures of 22 degrees below zero, injuries, illness, death among the native helpers and the latters' fear and reluctance to go on. At the time of the dispatch, the whole, party was back at the base camp waiting for a break in the weather. The British members were still undaunted, however, and expected better fortune in a few days...
...dirigible is often considered to be a fair-weather craft, and?as such?unsuitable for continuous commercial operation. The second excursion of the Shenandoah since her accident (TIME, Jan. 28) would seem to be a flat contradiction of this viewpoint...
Leaving the mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., about 7:15 one morning, the Shenandoah sailed over Trenton and Newark and high above the Hudson River ferries. Hailed by radio at Troy and at Schenectady, where the great broadcasting station of the General Electric Co. sent up weather reports requested by Commander Zachary Lansdowne, the Shenandoah reached Albany at noon...
What could disprove the notion of the Shenandoah being a fair-weather craft more happily than this? A moonless night, a heavy thunderstorm, two sessions of heavy fog?none of these seemed to have bothered the ship very much. The difficulty in landing "light" will certainly disappear when the ballast recovery apparatus has been attached to every engine...
...University Eights, four miles downstream, finishing at railroad bridge, wind and weather permitting...