Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required some jubilation at Peary Lodge, Polar Year station midway up Greenland's west coast. University of Michigan & Pan American Airways maintain the post: 1) to cooperate with European agencies in studying world-wide weather conditions, 2) to determine whether the northern hemisphere is recovering from the last Ice Age or is beginning another Ice cycle, 3) to judge the wisdom of a northerly airplane service between the U. S. & Europe. University of Michigan's Ralph L. Belknap is in charge, with four able men helping. Feb. 3, according to a message relayed last week by wireless...
From Mr. Prince's particular point of view, the conclusion that the college teacher represents a fair weather claque may well seem irresistible. He has probably grown a little weary of complacent rationalizations after 1929 from those who were once very prone to accept the new era without a second thought. But this does not change, although it may modify the fact that his own position is similarly untenable. For he does not distinguish with sufficient precision the real and fundamental position of the college professor...
...contender Whirlwind, built by his friend and star boat rival Landon Thorne. Adrian Iselin, looking very foxy with his trim mustache, sharp chin and twinkling eyes, makes a habit of arriving cautiously at the dock two hours before a race to keep an eye on the weather. He wins most in light airs. It is his system to keep moving at all costs, away from the mark if necessary, while his opponents stand still with their bows pointed in the right direction. Like many another yachtsman, he thinks he sails better on the starboard tack, possibly because he finds...
...week with the biggest news story of its career. Streaming across eight columns, three big, black banner lines roared: FREDERICK G. BONFILS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE POST, DIES AT HOME EARLY THURSDAY Wide black rules bordered every column. The whole front page except one column, which carried the weather report and Arthur Brisbane, was crammed with news of the death, surrounding a large picture of Publisher Bonfils. PRESIDENT HOOVER DEEPLY GRIEVED . . . BONFILS MADE POST A GREAT PAPER. . . . COLORADO HAS LOST ITS GREATEST CITIZEN. There were six more pages of pictures and testimonials...
...Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and South Dakota." It called itself a "gladiator invincible, fearless, determined, with a giant's strength, a philosopher's mentality. . . . The champion of every good, and pure, and noble, and holy and righteous cause. . . ." Sprinkled through its pages (and always over fair weather reports) was the legend "'Tis a Privilege to Live in Colorado." Bloodiest stories and pictures of corpses were sanctified by the watchword: "Crime Never Pays." On October 12, 1931 the Post's streamer read: CHRIS COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA...