Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vincente Villamin, the Filipino lawyer, economist, student of international affairs, etc., etc., etc., is reported as having declared that "windy sentimentalism is the driving force behind most of the agitation for independence in the Philippine Islands." Mr. Villamin ought to know because he is full of "wind" himself...
Outside the city, beyond its courts, its marble walls hushed above the water, brown men, appearing suddenly, hurried down crooked roads; racehorses with tiny loins and immense pointed legs whinnied and thumped in their stalls at the Oriental Park track; they smelled wind. Veterans at Camp Columbia, the Cuban Army headquarters in the suburbs of Marianao, looked dubiously at their tar-paper mansions. And in the middle of Havana the lean eagle erected to the memory of 260 Americans who went down with the battleship Maine, Feb. 15, 1898, seemed to come alive and with a darkness in each wing...
...here I made my coup, a typical bit of Forecast strategy. I just repeated, "Yes, that's so," and hung up the receiver. You can imagine just how thoroughly the wind was taken out of his sails. But I don't propose to rest on my last week's laurels, although I must modestly admit that there are enough to rest on. Most of the major Forecast errors of the past two years have been made in regard to Yale. There is something unpsychic, if that is what I mean, about the Elis. They always do what is least expected...
...straw with which the grounds have been covered in the past, have proven decidedly unsatisfactory, inasmuch as even a moderate wind would below the covering off the field. Although each of the four sections of the canvas weighs 1,600 pounds, benmen can spread and furl them in a fraction of the time formerly required to take the straw from the area between the goals...
...covers are made of tenounce, waterproofed duck, and protect the entire field with the exception of the and zones: Heavy planks on the ends of each section prevent the wind disturbing them...