Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayans invented their system about 613 B. C." Dr. Spinden said, "We know this from the fact that the names of the months, like the "rainy month," signifying the usual weather conditions accord in that period with the known seasonal variations. For 33 years the Mayans tested and perfected their system, and in 580 B.C. it was formally inaugurated." The Mayan era, beginning in that year antedates by almost 300 years the era of Scleucus the oldest known era of recorded time in th old world...
...visitors from the northland have been much handicapped this year by the unusually warm weather, which prevented the freezing of their outdoor rink. In order to have two days' practice in their element before starting on the U. S. tour last Monday, the players moved to Ottawa a week ago, where they held their workouts over the week end at an indoor rink...
...Fall crew season after breaking all records for late practice will come to an end on Friday, the present cold weather having slowed up the work on the river considerably. When consulted concerning the weather prospects for the immediate future, the Blue Hill observatory at Milton predicted that ice would form, in a few days, along the river banks, but that in all probability there would be no solid freeze. A sudden drop in temperature at any time, however, would accomplish this. At any rate, the two remaining floats and the motor boat are to be taken...
Perhaps, never before in Harvard rowing, have the crews had such a splendid start. The mild weather this Fall has enabled the work to be continued much later than in previous years. After the Christmas vacation the men will be given a rest until after the mid-year examinations when work will begin again on the machines and in the tank. It is hoped in this way to prevent the "staleness" which is so apt to creep into crew routine...
...work of Peters. He clothed the 18 scenes in a wardrobe distinctively bizarre, which he accomplished with a judicious economy superior only to his unfailing taste. Taking it all in all, Maeterlinck was primarily at fault. The fragile beauty of his strange imagining could not withstand the windy weather of actual production on the stage...