Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a new arrangement, tennis and rowing will not be discontinued at once, but will keep on as long as weather permits. Men who are at present taking part in one of these sports may either change now or continue where they are until show and ice drive them indoors...
...supposed to take the place of a plane's crew. The human pilot must take his plane off and land it. But once in the air and on his course he adjusts the automatic device to the proper compass direction, throws in a clutch, turns his attention to weather maps, radio reports. The risk of blind flying is eliminated; the automatic pilot requires no visibility to remain on course and on even keel. Moreover, the device flies a plane more smoothly than a human. At the beginning of a flight a human pilot can make about 50 corrections...
...deepest feeling of the undergraduate spectators. Rather it is an occasion for a pleasant meeting with old friends from other colleges, it is a festival, a holiday combining the most enjoyable features of an old Roman gladiatorial struggle, a burlesque show, and a Memorial Day Parade. If the weather is fine, one prefers, perhaps, to play a round of golf, but usually it is more amusing to take part in this Saturday reunion with the excitement of the crowd, the bands, and the gay colors...
With a chill wind giving a genuine atmosphere of football weather, the Harvard football squad placed contact work in the background for an afternoon yesterday as Coach Casey put his eleven through a serious drill on fundamentals, with several new plays being carefully developed. Team A worked out in a dummy scrimmage, no defense being used...
...first 1,000 mi. the flyers had good weather. After that, ice began to form on the wings as they climbed high over cloud banks, making the plane logy. A painful moment occurred at 3,000 mi. when the engine coughed - until the flyers remembered to switch from an empty gasoline tank to a full one. At first Herndon & Pangborn intended to fly to Salt Lake City, if possible, for a new distance record. They did fly as far as Spokane but turned back to Wenatchee "because we liked the looks of it better." With Pangborn at the controls they...