Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Observatory will post watchers from midnight to dawn at the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard Massachusetts; the Blue Hills Observatory. Milton; and at Bopkinton. In case of cloudy weather, cooperative stations have been established at Toronto, Saskatoom, Birmingham, and Fort Worth...
...thousands of fur dealers, dressers, dyers, manufacturers, retailers and their employes throughout the land last week was National Fur Week. They did their best through Press, radio, cinema, window displays and fashion shows to make the rest of the U. S. aware of fur. anxious to own some. Warmish weather handicapped them in New York and other sections, but by the end of the week they felt they were off to a prosperous season. Fur men had other reasons for feeling cheerful last week.* They had begun 1933 with three bleak years behind them. Both manufacturers and retailers had swung...
...bird, fish or non-carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...
...animals, cause droughts, tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes. The withering drought of 1929 was close to a sunspot peak, but there were other drought causes-light snows, early thaws-the preceding winter. California's Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard, S. J., "Padre of the Rains," had astonishing success in predicting weather by sunspots, but Father Jerome is dead now and his secret seems to have died with...
...Eugene H. Walker '37 covered the four mile cross country course along the Charles in 27 minutes, 43.4 seconds to win the annual University handicap cross country run. John P. Scheu '35, promising varsity harrier, without his handicap of fifteen seconds had the best actual time. Hampered by the weather conditions, Robert S. Playfair '36, the only man to start from scratch, failed to finish among the leaders. Yesterday's race was the last true competition the varsity runners will have before the I. C. 4A. meet which takes place in New York City on November...