Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Africa, and the capital of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, is being given serious consideration. Since 1890 the Harvard Observatory has operated a branch station at Arequipa, Peru, for the purpose of studying stars and other celestial objects that never rise above the horizons of Northern countries. However, as cloudy weather handicapped the observation from Peru for a large part of each year, the high plateaus of South Africa were found to be better for continued work the year round. The instruments from the Peruvian station are now being prepared for moving by Dr. John Paraskevopoulos, who has been in charge...
...hire a few "able" flappers, too? They might set you back $25 a week, but they would be worth it on top of a Fifth Avenue bus in warm weather, and around hotel lobbies during the winter...
Said Captain Van Beek: "It was one hell of a trip. ... We had rough weather from the time we left Cherbourg until we reached Halifax. We had difficulty even getting into Queenstown. The storm reached its climax two days later, when the waves were 60 feet high, and the wind had a velocity of 110 miles an hour. . . . The leak probably was the result of a rivet being worked loose by the laboring of the vessel. It was found there was no danger to the vessel and that only one of the four oil tanks was affected...
...subsidies to investigators. A young man named Alexander Graham Bell was discouraged over some experiments he had tried with magnets. Joseph Henry was sympathetic. The telephone was made. Joseph Henry enlisted volunteers to record what kind of days passed in different cities. Out of that grew the U. S. Weather Bureau...
...made of the game that has been arranged with the Braves.. The Harvard team will play the Braves in Boston on Monday, April 11, in the event that the game scheduled between the Red Sox and Braves for the previous Saturday is not cancelled because of bad weather. This will mark the Crimson's first appearance against a major league club since 1916, when Eddie Mahan succeeded in twirling his nine to a 2 to 0 triumph over the Red Sox, an outfit which later annexed the world's pennant. Coach Mitchell was in charge of that Harvard team...