Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allies, while the Germans switched to diphosgene which is less stable than its chemical brother but easier to fill into shells. The phosgenes accounted for 80% of the War's fatal gas casualties. Nevertheless, it had a tell-tale odor, efficient anti-phosgene, masks were developed, and wet weather weakened its effect, made it visible. Author Prentiss does not regard its future chances highly...
...fair or stormy weather...
...next Tuesday and Saturday nights this final drive will reach its peak when the five faces Columbia and Yale in their last two league clashes. They will not be fighting for first place, for the great Pennsylvania team has cinched that; but if they can weather these two games they will be in a second place tie, or perhaps sole possessor of that runner-up berth. This is in itself a truly remarkable record, for Wes Fesler had no naturally gifted basketball players. They have literally made that team good out of mediocre material...
...house down before the roof was on. Last week the same meteorological hard luck seemed to be pursuing Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). For her Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum would lend it momentum, not even a publisher could predict. Sympathetic critics, just emerging from their cyclone cellars, wished Author Gordon luck but had to admit that None Shall Look Back, though it blew a neater...
After three postponements due to lack of snow, the field of 30 skiers were rewarded by perfect conditions, fast powder snow and brisk, cold weather Times were fast: the first three men averaged about 30 miles per hour over the treacherous one and one-fourth mile course...