Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compare with their proposed $300,000,000 levee system. Furthermore reservoirs in the headwaters-they are not practical in the flat valleys of the main stream-might not do the trick. A large part of the rain that causes floods falls in the main valleys. The U. S. Weather Bureau last week published a map showing the distribution of rainfall during the first 25 days of January, the water of the present flood. The heaviest portion, from 16 in. to over 20 in., fell close to the main Ohio and Mississippi valleys from a point below Cincinnati to a point...
...Army's flood control plan (General Jadwin's plan modified) was to provide protection from the maximum possible flood. Army Engineers and the Weather Bureau calculated this "superflood" by taking the maximum known flood of each of the Mississippi's great tributaries and assuming that they all hit the main river at once-which they have never done...
...little fighting of any sort was there around Madrid, that correspondents began to hint that the Whites were mainly trying during the bitter winter weather to keep as many Militia in the north as possible while in Spain's sunny south the Generalissimo was rumored quietly preparing a White offensive against Valencia, the seaport to which the Madrid Cabinet long since fled (TIME, Nov. 16). Spunky General José Miaja, defender of Spain's erstwhile Capital, was holding out ably last week, issuing such proclamations as "The people of Madrid will eat their shoes before they surrender...
...clock last night the Boston Weather Bureau informed the CRIMSON that skiing conditions are the best of the winter. Prospects are for more snow and sub-freezing temperature...
...delegate at the undergraduate part of the Tercentenary last September. For harmonic reciprocity we have Messrs. Ting and Toong of China, for laconic resignation there is I. Pass '40, while B. Schur '40 exhorts all to verify before jumping to conclusions. It's getting to be sinfully weather, too, as A. Schuh '38 will testify...