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Word: winds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first match in an international series; after the second match the team that had scored the greatest total number of goals would be declared the winner. The U. S. women won the first match by a score of 5-2. Many spectators started to watch them but a cold wind blew most of them away; only a handful remained at the end to watch Dorothy Hunt-Hogan, the Canadian No. 1, topple off her pony and clamber back on again to finish the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Polo | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Postlude. The gentle winds that languished over the Caribbean and Florida last week played a melancholy postlude to the doomsday wind-music of the week before. There were fervid, efficient rescue workers in Florida, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe and the smaller West Indian islands. They performed emergency miracles. But everywhere they looked they saw twisted wreckage, bruised crops and foliage, substance for a long, necessarily patient renascence. And in the lush Everglades of Florida were corpses in piles, other corpses floating in ooze, while greedy buzzards spiralled overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Aftermath | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Romer started out last March from Lisbon to "row" across the Atlantic to New York. This canoe, the Deutsche Sport, arrived in Saint Thomas a month ago (TIME, Aug. 13) and left Porto Rico two weeks later, bound for Florida. The southeastern skies grew dark and a huge hungry wind came up behind Franz Romer. He has not reached Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ships at Sea | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

James Hall as a Hollywood gob takes the mariner's roll with wind abeam, while the supperting cast fits into the picture with only a few jars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

...Frank Sproul '29, Flying Club pilots, a few weeks ago, and now is in action daily flying to and from the Boston Airport. The trip east was executed with no trouble, and without accident, the only delay being a day's stop at Schenectady caused by the wind drifts resulting from the Atlantic seacoast storm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING CLUB PURCHASES NEW TRAVEL AIR PLANE | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

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