Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President of the U. S., sent a present to the Vice President of the U. S. It was a wind shield or, rather, spark shield for a pipe. Mr. Sanders wrote: "Use of this will also prove that the pipe is really not upside down...
...most of the past week a sirocco (hot, dry, enervating east wind) swept the battlefront where French and Riffians fight for supremacy in the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.). Fighting slackened and what was done ended in success for the Riffians, proving that the French successes of the previous week had in no sense discouraged or reduced the resistance of their enemies. A number of tribal desertions to the Riffians was also reported. Marshal Petain, his face bronzed by the African sun, landed at Ceuta, en route to Paris from the front (TIME, Aug. 3) conversed long...
...tied the course record, led the field. Brazen-faced Walter Hagen, chin higher than ever, touched off a spoon shot at the treacherous 250-yard 18th, holed a 2, stood second. After 18 holes more, grinning Diegel still grinned. Another 18, played in a high east wind, and Hagen still padded along in second place, four strokes behind Diegel, The two played together in the final round, Hagen suave but erratic, Diegel now scowling but still accurate. Final scores: Diegel 69 75 73 78-295 Mike Brady 72 75 76 74-297 Hagen 71 74 76 80-301 Andrew...
...chill westerly wind and heavy rain ?bleak January weather, according to the notions of the Northern Hemisphere ?prevailed one fine July morning as the U. S. fleet in two detachments approached the harbors of Sydney, New South Wales, and Melbourne, Victoria...
...seagull or two, poised over the ridged seas that beleaguer Scotland, were puzzled last week by a pair of inexplicable water-fowl-larger, whiter, sleeker than they-which never rose into the air, but skirted the wavetops, their wings petitioning the wind. Through a calm off Bogany Land, round a buoy at Kerry Croy, on the tumbled reach to Blackhouse, one of these birds was always in front of the other. That one was the Lanai, U. S. six-metre boat, sailed by Sherman Hoyt, famed Long Island yachtsman...