Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps she was never as strong and sturdy as her builders calculated on paper. Perhaps she had never really recovered from an old rib injury last year. Perhaps the wet windy weather had something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert...
...that day and the next the Macon cruised down the rough, ragged shoreline while battleships and cruisers sported about on the Pacific below her. Off Santa Monica there was wind and rain but the airship had often bucked worse weather without trouble. By the time the Macon was ready to turn around and start for home, the little storm was practically over and the air had cleared enough for persons on shore to see her red and green lights flashing through the dusk...
...whose age archeologists disagreed by centuries. Dr. Douglass examined the logs of one, reported: "The wood for this dwelling was cut in the year 1260 A. D." But what interested the Carnegie Institution most was his finding evidence of periodicity in his charts which led him to believe that weather might repeat itself in cycles, and his invention of a way to detect and analyze such cycles...
...Arizona officials announced that, by arrangement with the Carnegie Institution which will pay his salary and provide him with three assistants, Dr. Douglass will be detached from his astronomical duties to devote all his time to an intensive two-year program of cycle analysis looking toward long-range weather forecasting...
When he went to London to support himself by scholarly journalism he carried on his Spartan regime, started the day, whatever the weather, by a run and a swim in the Serpentine. In one Christmas-Day swimming race his chest was severely cut by the ice. He bought his eggs by the week, turned them over each morning like so many hour-glasses, so that the yolk would not settle to the edge, start rotting. After three years of London, Fowler joined his brother Frank on the island of Guernsey, lived in hermit-like sociability, 50 yards away from...