Word: weathers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Extensive repairs to the Harvard Stadium, started some five weeks ago, will be finished within the next two weeks, if the weather is sufficiently dry. According to the contractors, The National Gunnite Company, the work on filling in the cracks which have been growing in the 29 years of the Stadium's existence, and the replacing of old bolts and tie rods, as well as the painting of the girders, will not interfere with the use of the Stadium on the coming afternoons...
...Chinese are expert carvery and know its worth. It was classified to us as follows: violet-tinted white, some slightly amber tint, white (pure), apple (light) green, darker shades of green, muddy (yellowish) white, etc. A common test is extreme hardness and its coldness to touch regardless of weather...
...Indiana's small-eyed, large-paunched Senator James Eli Watson staggered to a chair just in time to avoid fainting on the platform of a Republican rally at Madison, Ind. last week. When he had revived, Senator Watson informed his audience that fainting on the rostrum in hot weather was no new experience to him. He had done it once before at Linton. thrice in Washington, because he always works himself to the highest pitch when speaking...
...rose-covered cottages, the winding streets, the open moors where the red deer browse . . . . a warning whistle from the boat . . . . assorted farewells . . . . the little yachts with the bright-colored sails fade away in the twilight . . . . back to Boston, back to Cambridge, back to politics, depression, newspapers, prohibition, bad weather, books and autumn . . . . And then cometh Atropos...
...from the parent B. F. Goodrich Co. Producer chiefly of rubber footwear, Hood was acquired by Goodrich in 1929 and all Goodrich footwear activities were concentrated in the Hood plant in Watertown, Mass. No sooner had Goodrich made the purchase than rubber footwear sales began to fall. The mild weather last winter dropped sales for the industry to less than one-half of pre-Depression volume. Officials offered no explanation of the Hood sale, but Wall Street thought that, without harm to anyone, Goodrich had smartly eliminated Hood's losses from its consolidated statements...