Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...analysis (study of weather phenomena in the upper air) has been taken up with a will. At six stations, small automatic radios attached to sounding balloons send upper-air recordings to ground receivers. At twelve stations, airplanes make daily recording nights. At 79 stations, pilot balloons furnish upper-air wind velocities. The Bureau has greatly expanded its special aids to airlines, has put 33 of its men in airport weather offices. It has also extended and improved its warning services for hurricanes, fruit frosts, forest fires, floods. And new Chief Reichelderfer will find his current budget the fattest in years...
LISTEN! THE WIND - Anne Morrow Lindbergh-Harcourt, Brace...
Mindful of German dislike of outside interference, they kept mum about their plans. At least two newspapers, the New York Times and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, knew what the three Friends were about, and kept mum too. But the Philadelphia Record got wind of the story, telephoned numerous Philadelphia Quakers, finally got hold of Quaker Jones on the Queen Mary. Despite his pleas, the Record splashed the story on its front page last week...
From the lyrical description of "Saltwater Farm," Coffin has turned to a portrayal of those Maine people who "still live by the skin of their teeth, on wind-pudding and small potatoes and few on a hill. They live by the weather and their wits. They come to sudden conclusions. They 'up and do things' that are for once and for all," as he describes them in his introduction. With the simplest of words and rhyme, Coffin attempts in this little volume to draw these folk, their acts, and lives that snuff out with a brief, "flourish of finality" pathetic...
Unabashed seekers for self-improvement are literary societies for Negroes in San Antonio-the Utopia Club. Elizabeth Prophet Club, Hotel Men's Wives Club, etc.-which solemnly discuss books by Negroes, an occasional novel like Gone With the Wind, in which Negroes appear...