Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national political convention in the U. S. is a vast vegetative process by which man in the mass distills out of himself that which he calls Leadership, the quality of the result depending upon many preceding months of social and economic weather, upon the current fertility or poverty of the soil that is the mass mind...
...flights" of craft about to be taken out of service. They are supposed to be unlucky. The L. A. landed for the last time at 6:24 a. m. June 25. She was scheduled for a final flight June 27 but did not leave her hangar. Reason given: bad weather...
...that manual labor built railroads, bridges and homes, but it is also true that, except for the direction of that manual labor by non-manual planning, these would never have been built. Manual labor, undirected by science invention and management would have hardly built huts to keep out the weather and would today make playthings out of the factories and bonfires out the schools. Manual labor has been a ready to waste itself for years in building pyramids as to dam the Nile. It is direction from the mind that has built granaries rather than graves. . . . This is as sure...
...after the first boat arrived the next spring no miner had a cold, although they lived in hot, stuffy barracks, went out into blustery cold every morning, picked coal at temperatures below freezing and returned tired each evening to their steaming quarters. Their healthiness suggested that drafts, bad weather, or freezing have nothing per se to do with common colds. In the spring the mailman went to the first ship for mail. A few hours later he was sniffling. Next day everybody in Spitsbergen had a cold, which suggested again that the virus which causes colds travels swiftly...
...Hermann, Mo. on the Missouri river a weather-beaten skiff pulled alongside the shiny government towboat Mark Twain aboard which Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was inspecting inland waterways. Aboard the skiff was its owner, William ("Steamboat Bill") Hechmann, old-time river pilot. Observing an enormous fish lashing about at the end of a line astern the skiff, the Secretary shouted...