Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...182.Prospect of further conflict loomed when fiery Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi, "The Hewer of Communist Heads," declared at Peking, last week, that the Nationalist Armies will now extend their authority over Manchuria, while their enemies "scatter like dead leaves before the rising wind...
Coach Brown has decided to have the first crew use the Pocock shell given by John Watt's father in the race on Saturday. The conditions today were poor, with rough water, and a strong south westerly wind. It was very hot on the river...
Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, not content to cast 62-year-old eyes on the phenomena of eagles and buzzards (TIME, April 23), demanded the controls of the Fokker monoplane in which she will fly to India and back. Pilot Barnard hesitated, sniffed the gusty wind, complied. Upon landing, he admitted: "The Duchess did extremely well for a day like this...
Epsom Downs is a heath where gypsies camp, the wind blows, and Londoners sometimes come for picnics. In the winter it is deserted and sinister-looking but on one day a year nearly a million people drive from all over England to see the race. Motor buses park along the last mile of the course and the spectators sit on top of them drinking champagne. This year as usual they bought luck-charms from gypsy peddlers, cheered the Prince of Wales, waved their hats at the King, and shouted as the horses went round to the start. Lord Derby...
...afternoon a strong flood tide against the wind made the water very rough. The first two combinations rowed down to the submarine base, where they met with high waves, and both shells shipped a great deal of water. With no floats downstream at which they could land to empty the shells, the craft were forced to return to the boat house with over two inches of water aboard...