Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile experts expressed astonishment that the White Bird should take off in the face of unfavorable weather conditions. Weather Bureau officials said that adverse winds in Mid-Atlantic would retard the plane by 25 miles an hour. Said U. S. Aviator Floyd Bennet: "Fighting a head wind is discouraging and uses a lot of gasoline...
...between a U. S. and a British ship to win the tea trade. A British lass, the fiancee of a dastardly lord, falls in love with a U. S. tar. Picturesque costumes, plenty of spray and salty subtitles such as "Better luff your needle to port," and "Set the weather stun sails" set the atmospherics flying...
Four games will be played in the class baseball tournament this week following a week suspension of games due to unfavorable weather conditions...
...weather conditions are favor able while the party is in camp it will try to ascend Mount Alberta, which was first scaled in 1925 by a party of Japanese. Hans Fuhrer who will be the guide on this trip was also on the Japanese expedition and it is rumored that a silver ice axe, a gift from the Emperor of Japan to the leader of the party, was left at the peak...
...word panne, meaning "difficulty." The English flying term, "pancake," a verb describing a method of coming to earth with supporting surfaces of the ship flattened to retard the descent and prevent somersaulting, does not connote disaster though fliers are sometimes obliged to "pancake" when damage to their controls or weather and ground conditions make other tactics impossible. šThe original marine distress signal was "C Q D" ("Come Quick Danger"). This was replaced by the simplest and most unmistakable code letters "S O S " (. . . . - - - . .). To these three letters unofficial meanings have been fitted without number: "Save Our Ship," "Send...