Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking advantage of the warm weather yesterday Team A and Team B of the University baseball squad, outdoors for the first time, engaged in an abbreviated game on the Soldiers Field diamond, in which team. A outplayed its rivals...
Rough water near the Cambridge shore prevented a trial over the measured course and the race was rowed close to the Boston wall. these informal races will be continued until the weather conditions are ripe for sending the crews over the mile and three quarter course on the lower Charles River...
...Inauguration Day was the dirigible Los Angeles and four blimps. When the parade was over the Los Angeles soared back through the murk and storm to Lakehurst, N.J. Of the four blimps, one belonging to the Army and two belonging to the Navy, were unable, on account of the weather, to return to their bases at Langley Field, Va., and Lakehurst...
...detestable weather they descended on Boiling Field at Washington, dropped their landing lines and prepared to spend the night. A bitter welcome they had. The wind rose and howled about their squamous sides. The landing lights upon the field were burned all night. Ground crews were turned from their warm bunks and 650 men kept standing on the icy field straining their arms to keep the blimps from tearing loose. The crews were kept in the baskets of the ships; the engines were kept running in case a forced departure should be necessary...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: John D. Rockefeller Jr., sojourning last week in Jerusalem, said: "My father is like Egypt-he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times...