Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of crop losses than prices-but General Wood did not regard the situation as sufficiently serious to warrant abandonment of penalties for nonpayment of taxes. The Legislature is expected to rise in protest-the Governor having departed for Java. The weathermen shook their heads: " Cloudy, with more stormy weather in the offing...
...Athletic Association still has, as well, a collection of relics of the Holy Cross, Dartmouth, and Brown games. In these cases the weather had less influence on the nature of the discovered articles. Instead of raincoats and umbrellas, the list includes large numbers of coat belts, gloves, and steamer rugs, as well as one fraternity...
...General Electric Co. announced that Postmaster General New has ordered all mail planes to be equipped with special radio sending and receiving sets. Pilots can converse with land stations, get their bearings in rain, fog or night, find out the weather ahead of them, summon help in case of emergency landings. Exhaustive tests show that the equipment will work even when thoroughly saturated with rain or snow...
...weather was, of course, execrable. It was hard on the victors, who had hoped to see their team score a clean-cut and even more decisive victory. It was hard on the vainquished, who had hoped to see their new defense stop the Yale attack and turn some golden opportunity into a chance for a score. It was trying for the spectators. But it is another tribute to Yale and to Harvard that, under such circumstances, such a game should have been possible--another game of cleanest rivalry and finest sportsmanship...
...their attempt this afternoon to avenge former Harvard victories, the fast Yale backs will have the advantage of a dry afternoon and a 50 degrees temperature, if the weather predictions, made by the Blue Hill Observatory at a late hour last night, hold true. This prediction was given despite the ominous rainy weather of last night and the knowledge that light rains may fall this morning. The sky will undoubtedly be cloudy, but no rain is expected during the hours of the game. "Harvard controls its football weather" can well be said if rain does not interfere with this afternoon...