Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nerve where it finds the best medium for proliferating. And as the viri develop they travel up the network of nerves in the animal's, or human's, body to the spinal cord, and eventually to the brain. The virus of rabies is more active in cold weather than in warm. There are more dogs actually mad in December than in July, contrary to the vulgar belief in summer "dog days." Nor, as is all too often thought, are all dogs mad that may be seen running wildly, jaws slavering and eyes excited. A dog might be angry...
...season, Denis Enright, the superintendent of Soldiers Field, stated yesterday that the work on the cage is much hampered by the freezing temperature Although the steel frame-work has been completed, and work has began on the walls, the men were obliged to lay off working while the cold weather continues...
...factor that will do more than anything else to aid the cause of aviation, will be the advance of the science of meteorology. Until flyers have some accurate way of determining the weather before starting on a flight, there will always be expense and a low factor of safety connected with aviation. As long as flying can be considered a dangerous luxury for individuals, conservatives will criticise it with some degree of impunity as an evil and unnecessary invention...
Paradoxically Barney Barnato, who feared neither man nor the wild beasts of Africa, was bedeviled by two maladies: 1) a fantastic psychic dread that he might lose his millions and have to peddle in the streets again; 2) an incurable eczema which prickled him unbearably in warm weather. One day, as he was journeying from Africa to England, he leaped from the ship, drowned...
...week, wooden tugs armored with iron plates gnawed at the solidifying ice. Masters poured oil into the waters to retard the rate of freezing. It takes more cold to freeze fouled water than pure. But the weather was 20° below zero and the tugs had to do their work. They would back off 300 to 400 feet from the pack. Then with a snarl of steam they would dash at the ice, only to be bounced by their own recoil. Yet at each attack a bit of ice did crumble to their bites...