Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of a high wind the football squad competed within the secrecy of its enclosure yesterday afternoon for the H.A.A. punting and drop--kicking prizes...
...Crystal loosened my tight little moral cloak to an unshackling wind and pinned it back with something as hard and bright and impersonal as a star...
...undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor of a Stinson plane by leaving an oil heater in the hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn southwest, fly two hours, then turn back to Point Barrow. The territory thus circumscribed, 50,000 square miles lying polewards...
Much has been said about the joys and felicities of spring, about the bursting buds, the gentle zephyrs the livelier iris on the burnished dove, etc, etc.--usually when March winds were still tossing hats gaily about the Yard. But no one can say more that these things are a delusion and a share, a trap for the unwary who essay forth coatless, trusting the tempered wind, for the baseball season has arrived. So this afternoon, the Vagabond will wander out toward Soldiers Field, admire in passing the blue of the river as it mirrors the fleecy clouds, and then...
...near San Remo on the Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish rake, who had often enough growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised the chows as stupid foreigners, bristled...