Word: thunder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Class A. No instruments required. Simple records of the time of beginning and ending of rain, when thunder is first heard and loudest, and of the direction of wind and its changes...
Class B. Ordinary instruments needed. A thermometer and a tin can for collecting rain. A somewhat more detailed record of rain, wind, temperature, thunder, etc. during the passage of a storm...
...days; they will be appointed one and a half to two days in advance by special message from the Chief Signal Officer in Washington, and will be announced to the public by telegraphic reports to all newspapers of the New England Associated Press. They will be days on which thunder-storms are expected. Most of the important newspapers have agreed to print these Term-day announcements...
These are our halcyon days. There is no doubt about it. But why can't we appreciate the fact? Somehow, we feel something hanging over us intervening between us and summer, and vaguely realize this to be the dark, thunder-cloud of the finals. Then, we don't fully appreciate our college life, for thinking of what is before us in after life. Yet all the time, we know that we are leading a mighty pleasant existence. Well, we may as well make up our minds to it, we shall always have something disagreeable mixed in with the agreeable...
...Like thunder frightened cattle...