Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth, in 1908, the groups huddled around fraternity-house fireplaces had two subjects for disgruntled conversation: the cold weather and an eccentric sophomore named Fred Harris who went outdoors every afternoon to slide down the New Hampshire hills on two long sticks. Of Dartmouth's many alumni, distinguished and otherwise, none has served his alma mater more effectively than Skier Harris. From his odd idea of entertainment developed the Dartmouth Outing Club, the legend of a "college on skis" that made last week's 25th annual Winter Carnival one of the brightest happenings on the calendar...
Such a babble of speculation, such a jumble of conflicting theory has arisen in recent years about long-range weather forecasting that the rich, inquisitive Carnegie Institution of Washington lately decided that it must have more information on this stormy subject. Last week it seemed eminently proper that the Institution should turn to a man who knows how much rain has fallen every year, wet or dry, in various corners of the world, for hundreds and even thousands of years...
...Observatory, he is most widely renowned for his pioneer work on the growth of tree rings. More than three decades ago Dr. Douglass had a great hunch and started examining the rings on yellow pines. By the time he had made 10,000 meticulous measurements and compared them with weather records he had verified what he suspected from the first-that the thickness of each year's growth ring is proportional to the amount of rainfall that year. It was clear then that before man-made records were dreamed of, the trees were faithfully inscribing rainfall records in their...
...Weather forecast for New Hampshire and Vermont; snow and warmer...
...Weather forecast: fair and warmer today, Saturday probably rain...