Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Defined in dispatches from Cambridge as "men who play dominoes and wear their hair long and wool next to their skin in warm weather." *Erected in 1841 in memory of Protestant Bishops Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley, the Martyrs' Memorial is decorated with domestic crockery by Oxford undergraduates almost as often as Princeton's Christian Student is defiled with empty gin bottles...
Next day the four-man sleds were trucked to the top of Mount Van Hoevenberg in softening weather. Six other teams in the four-man championship would doubtless have been pleased if all the Stevenses-Hubert, Curtis, Raymond and Paul-had clambered onto the same sled. Instead, Hubert, Curtis and Raymond each drove a sled of his own, placed 1, 2, 3 in the first two heats. Hubert Stevens made his first run in 1:47.79, breaking the course record Curtis had set a week earlier. His second run-.01 sec. slower-gave him a scant 5 sec. lead...
...year's Varsity shell, now reporting or about to report for workouts in the tank at the Newell Boat House, Coach Whiteside expects to be on the river by Monday. No definite schedule will be inaugurated nor tentative seatings assigned, however, until there are unmistakable signs of permanent warm weather...
...gear was made double-strong for rough landings. A cabin hatch was cut for observations of the stars. Fuel tanks were built to hold 1,000 gal. In the cabin was a bed for the pilot off watch. Experts spent months in plotting the course for favorable topography and weather...
...Nicholetts. As the big plane lumbered down the concrete runway, sparks spouted comet-like from her tailskid. It was 7:15 a.m. By 7 :15 p. m. she was roaring across the north coast of Africa. During most of the day, the "robot" controls had steadied her through thick weather. Not until they were over the Sahara that night could the pilots take a star sight...