Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear in northwestern Sumatra and partly cloudy in the neck of the Malay Peninsula for about five minutes early one afternoon last week. Half an hour later ! there were three minutes of almost perfect weather in the Philippines. If there had been perfect weather in all places the world would have been happier. As it was, there was a fair amount of contentment. Several hundred thousand dollars had been ventured on the prospect of there being good weather in those peculiar places during those particular minutes. Some twelve expeditions had traveled half way around the globe with unwieldy scientific impedimenta...
...this account stations were located, not only in Sumatra and the nearby Malay Peninsula where the eclipse had nearly its maximum duration, but also in the Philippines where the duration was considerably less. As it happened, the shorter duration in the Philippines was more than offset by better weather. In Sumatra there was clear weather for the necessary half-hour, but some of the expeditions on the Malay Peninsula failed entirely. There should. however, be photographs good enough for valuable comparisons. Never before have photographs of an eclipse been taken at periods of a half-hour or more apart...
...entered 54 men to combat the Indian horde. Several days of warm weather have helped his conditioning processes. The Crimson prospects have been brightened considerably by the showing of A. E. French '29 in recent dash trials. The other day last fall's football captain had the edge on T. F. Mason '30 in practice dashes, and he may surprise the dopesters by a win in the 100 yard dash...
...will be able to land on a field we cannot see. Fog flying is hazardous now, but I expect that within the next few years we will be able to fly through almost any kind of weather. So that conditions being somewhere near equal in regard to fog, I think distance from the city would be of primary importance...
...Weather permitting, the two Harvard lightweight crews will match strokes with the first Tech 150-pound crew over the Henley course at 5.30 o'clock today Half an hour earlier the 1932 shell will lineup with the Engineers' first year eight ready to go over the new mile and three quarters course...