Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stump-speakers to defend socialism when the weather gets warm are being trained by the Harvard Socialist Club. Men and women from colleges in Boston and the vicinity are being tutored in the style that will enable them to shout down all muttered objections at the meetings they intend to address later. The plan to outtalk the balky Boston police who hitherto have thwarted the cause of honest labor...
...Presently the harem is augmented by Helen, who plays the harp, laughs adoringly at herself, and is a little too coy for her age and looks. The women, naturally, do not get along at all well with each other; Max is first bored, then driven to despair. The weather is depressing; their landlord-neighbor turns out to fee a terrible fellow; Max is deplorably cheated in a horse-trade whose postmortems drag on for months. Finally he moves them all to Algeria, where he has foolishly taken a three-year lease on a house in an isolated oasis. He thinks...
...utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who in spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...
...hand as he blessed them, then lay quiescent as they were solemnly handed over to the Benedictine nuns of the Church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere, who promised to take the best of care of them until the day of their shearing, Wednesday in Holy Week, when the weather should be warm. Carried to St. Cecilia's convent, the two pontifical lambs resumed their important business of sprouting wool...
...this has been an unusual ice year around Antarctica. As far from the Ross Sea as the Weddell Sea, bad ice and turbulent weather have prevented Sir George Hubert Wilkins from making any extensive airplane explorations. All he could do was make three brief flights this year, and those from a ship. He had hoped that he could fly from his base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same...