Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rowing After Bad Weather...
Captain Platt first explained the advantage of giving every man an equal opportunity by having no first crew or squad this fall. He stated that the crews will not continue on the water after the weather becomes disagreeable, and that there will be no work thereafter until after the Midyears period...
During the balance of the week Coach Mitchell intends to spend most of the time limbering up with long hitting sessions featuring the daily workouts. Beginning next week seven inning games will be played each afternoon, weather permitting...
...before, seasoned "salts" had noted two curious phenomena. In a flat calm, monster oily waves swept up to the beach, boomed hollowly like bushmen's drums. This was the "dead" swell caused by heavy weather no great distance away. The other occurrence, more inexplicable, was the leaping of porpoises,* long considered by seamen a storm augury. Seasoned "salts" had sought shelter...
...Gulf of Mexico fishermen agree that schools of porpoises leaping usually indicate approaching heavy weather. Whether this is due to atmospheric conditions or to marine conditions, who can say? * Doubtless named after the famed fish pompano, southern epicures' delight and conceded one of the world's tastiest marine morsels...