Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salle Street's air throbbed with bullish rumor: Russia was definitely out of the export market; the Manchurian situation meant war and war meant a wheat shortage; U. S. farmers will cut their 1932 acreage drastically; nearly one-third of Germany's crop was ruined by wet weather...
This year, however, Dr. Fisher, who is known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman," believes that such perturbation will be less, and that, if the weather is favorable, it may be possible to photograph the shower. As the stream of meteers is so rich that it takes several years to pass by the earth, astronomers have been on the watch for it since 1929. If, on any one of the following nights, a brilliant display is noted, then Dr. Fisher declares that the main part of the shower will be over, and only faint signs of it will be seen next...
Because of weather conditions the water on the basin was too rough for boating and the race had to be rowed on the three-quarter mile upstream course. The stiff breeze with which the oarsmen had to contend was responsible for the comparatively slow time of the winner. Codman was rowing for the Union Boat Club of Boston and Stuart for the Cambridge Boat Club...
...very loudly or very softly, very high and very low. Boxofficially their short tour was last season's outstanding success. Last week from Manhattan they began a second tour. From New England to the Pacific Coast they will give 110 concerts, traveling by motor bus except when the weather is slippery or the jumps too long...
...group of students, Mr. H. G. Wells, noted British writer, held court in the Leverett House Common Room yesterday evening from 8.45 to 9.15 o'clock. Mr. Wells had been expected as a guest of honor at the Leverett House dinner but was delayed by the inclement weather which caused the cancellation of the New York to Boston afternoon air service...