Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overhead to their laboratory, the North Sea. High-flying bombers, moving above the autumn lanes of migratory wildfowl, but in the opposite direction, sought out a squadron of the British Navy which they evidently knew was out maneuvering in open water, or which they just happened to find there. Weather favored the fliers when they located their targets: clouds low enough to afford a screen for the dive bombers to come down through, yet not so solid but that heavy, non-diving bombers could drop "stuff" from far aloft through cloud holes...
Opposing Ruffing in the opener at Yankee Stadium before an expected throng of 60,000, weather permitting, will be Paul Derringer, the Reds' lofty righthander, who finished the season with 10 straight victories. Derringer's forte is control. He walked only 35 men in 301 innings during the National League season. His low-breaking curve is one of the toughest pitches in baseball...
...average of around 25 men to a squad has turned out so far, with more expected when element weather arrives and when the entire list of Bible, Shakespeare, and Ancient Authors examinations have been completed...
Amid the brilliant sunshine which Germans call "Hitler weather"-they used to call it "Kaiser weather"-the Führer rumbled off to Danzig in a six-wheeled juggernaut staff car, followed by two Gestapo cars in which guards sat fingering new-style German repeater rifles. They did not shoot when the sidewalk lines of brown-shirted storm troops holding people back in Danzig were repeatedly broken as crowds surged forward cheering. One break was made by a brawny group of Red Cross nurses. Whooping with excitement, young Danzig students risked their lives in dashes right to the juggernaut...
...week Benito Mussolini had a long talk with 77-year-old Marshal Enrico Caviglia, one of the few Italian heroes of World War I. Marshal Caviglia had recently inspected the fortifications on the Italo-French frontier and it was presumed that he and Il Duce did not discuss the weather. After this meeting all good Italians still waited anxiously for Mussolini to say something very definite about which way Italy would jump, as they had waited for three weeks since war began...