Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer whether he could read or not, it was told that "Ma" Ferguson would receive exactly 453,884 votes; Dan Moody exactly 307,887; and Lynch Davidson about 63,000. Moody men guffawed. Lynch Davidson growled about "political liars." Jim Ferguson hitched up his pants and hustled on to wind up his free-and-easy wife-boosting rodeo...
...done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to boost the pontoons sufficiently to make up for the overnight leakage and to maintain them "as they were" until the wind and sea should moderate. The bow pontoons had not yet been boosted when the bow was found to be coming...
Once the bow was up the effort had to be made, despite the adverse wind and sea conditions (which were getting worse) to get the stern up. This effort did not succeed, owing to the parting of the chains of the stern pair of pontoons...
...supposed that the President would lift the cloud concerning the species and dimensions of his fish. He did not. Five days later, the President caught singlehanded a six pound bass on a troll line, and five brook trout with trusty bamboo pole and juicy angle worms-rain, high wind, notwithstanding...
GYPSY DOWN THE LANE-Thames Williamson-Small, Maynard (2.50). "The gypsy watches sky and earth, and both are lately swiftly changing. The heavens are day by day more tender, the air more soft-sweeter, my people. For a week the wind has ridden from the south, and with it the note of the bluebird, which is the note of springtime...