Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general appropriation for fiscal 1933, NACA spent $600,043 for "personal services," $1,545 for "transportation of things," $960 to rent an office in Paris. Of President Wilson's original appointees, there remain only Dr. Ames and Dr. Charles Frederick Marvin, 75, retired chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau...
...most fortunate occurrences of these lethargic examination days was a chance visit to that old New England Whaling town, New Bedford, last weekend. Both the whales and the weather had evidently given out long ago so there was nothing to do but go to the movies. And you would all be surprised to know what up and coming pictures these old salts have for their amusement...
...thick shrouds around the little vessel. Useless was the 16,000 candlepower electric light glaring on her masthead. Every 15 seconds her fog whistle emitted a mournful blast. The beacon signal, sounded by a motor-driven key controlled by clockwork, went out continuously instead of on the fair weather schedule of 15 min. every hour. The submarine oscillograph, synchronized with the beacon, throbbed cyclic warnings through the water...
...Weather permitting, the Rabbit net men will leave for New Haven late this morning to engage the champions in the tennis league of the Yale Colleges. Any way you put it, the matches this afternoon are going to be close, with the Blue having a slight edge...
...total of all the games which were not staged because of some uncontrollable interference, such as inclement weather, amounts up to a half dozen in all, while in addition to this the defaulted engagements come almost up to this same number...