Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ralph Rainger's and Leo Robin's songs are tuneful--"The Wind in My Window" and I've Gone Off the Deep End." Incidentally, there is a team of six young ladies who call themselves "Las Chiquitas" and look like something the management discovered in the railroad station at New Haven...
...that she has bought from the U. S. planes which this country had already improved upon. One of France's top fighters is the Curtiss P-36, of which she bought 200. Its 275-300 m. p. h. are not enough. Its air-cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed that it even outfights the Messerschmitt, being more maneuverable...
...strong Williams team, a narrow field, a ball lighter than the one to which they are accustomed, and a high wind all added together to bring defeat in an overtime period to the Crimson soccer team Saturday afternoon, 3 to 2, at Williamstown...
...first half of the overtime the Harvard booters had the wind behind them, but a Williams rally prevented them from scoring. The final goal was made in nine minutes of the first extra period...
Undergraduates quivered and quaked in their dormitory cubicles over the weekend while the windows rattled in the blasts of an icy October wind that sent the mercury skidding to the bottom. The radiators in the Houses likewise remained cold...