Word: storms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first big storm broke in 1936, before the last strains of the Tercentenary celebration had faded away. In February of that year, the masters had inserted a "two-woman" rule in the parietal booklet, stating not only that three people must be present when a woman was entertained, but also that two of them must be female. In addition, there was a new requirement that a hosts must sign their women guests in and out, in addition to getting the masters' permission beforehand...
Turn Around. Meanwhile over New York, New Jersey and New England, the edge of the storm clashed explosively with warm moist air from the Atlantic. Howling winds of hurricane force (gusts of more than 100 m.p.h. were recorded on New York's Bear Mountain, New Hampshire's Mount Washington) drove torrential rains across hundreds of miles of coast._ Trees were uprooted, roofs ripped off, windows caved in, telephone and power lines torn down and hundreds of thousands of people left without light or heat...
France's coalition government was a vote of confidence last night in a parliamentary storm on the eve of Premier Rene Pleven's flight to confer with Attlee. Communists and extreme right-wingers attacked the administration but were defeated when Ploven's government received a comfortable margin of 347 votes to 184 on alleged irregularities in their Indo-China defense...
...first large mass of cold air moved southward from the Arctic over Labrader down to Maine in the wake of last Monday's storm, forming a high pressure zone in the northeastern U.S. At the same time, a second cold air mass flowed down from north central Canada to form a cold front extending along the Appalachian Mountains down to Georgia...
Cambridge remained relatively intact through the storm that ravaged the New England coastline for 19 hours this weekend. Heavy rain and winds ranged in force from gale-to-hurricane...