Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this line the first weather message came from the Exporter Exermont, northeast of Bermuda in the Gulf Stream. ''Wind: south-south-west; force: six m.p.h.; weather: few clouds; barometer: 30.37; visibility: excellent; temperature: 84° F." Soon other reports came jumbling in. Hour later the course was marked with weather bulletins all across the southern route...
...lectured at a small agricultural college in Kansas, stayed at the house of the college president. One student who listened to him with particularly wide-eyed wonder was the president's son, David Fairchild, who had already resolved to be a botanist, was studying parasitic fungi and the wind-borne movements of Kansas tumbleweed...
Professor Terman admits that his findings are merely straws in the wind, by no means conclusive. Much of his evidence is colored by his subjects' feelings and reticence. Moreover, he points out that findings might differ in other States than California, other groups than the middle class. But he holds that his test for predicting marital happiness has this much reliability: if an individual scores in the top quarter on the test, the chances are four out of five that his marriage will be average or above average in happiness...
...dresses that stood about the shop. "Nothing amused his eyes," says Van Wyck Brooks, "more than a pretty dress, blue, green, yellow or old rose, as one saw in all his pictures to the end of his life, the beach parties and fairytale picnics with their charming wind-blown figures and little girls with parasols and flying skirts...
...every sailor. It doesn't make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They are both good boats, ad the races represent sailing returned to the days before the present yachting craze, back to the sea and wind and men who owe their livelihood to them. The sight of Ben Pine and Angus Walters behind those two wheels is a fine one; and the world will be missing something when the influx of beam trawlers, Diesels and the hustle and bustle of today make it no more than...