Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foresee a speedy end to the world's series. The weather is too cold to continue playing baseball, and I have been asked to step in and finish it before it went any farther. I have therefore decreed that the result of today's game will be; Athletics 7, Cubs...
...Doolittle, 33, "best Army Flyer," did it, at Mitchel Field, L. I. Thereby he completed eleven months' experiments for which the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics borrowed him from the Army Air Corps, and which presaged the highest safety in flying through no matter what weather...
Perhaps the fact that college years begin in the fall has something to do with it too. The adjectives applied to autumn weather--crisp, brisk, stimulating--are always suggestive of activity. Who knows what the effect would be if the opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There...
...inclemency of the weather yesterday, the H. A. A. will extend the time for applications for tickets to the West Point and Dartmouth games until 6 o'clock this afternoon. This announcement was made early yesterday afternoon, when several hundred undergraduates were forced to stand in the rain waiting to enter their applications...
...cold northeaster trickled down their necks, must have felt that some simpler way of applying for football tickets might be devised. And it is not probable that their feelings would be much altered by the confusion and delay of the ticket office, which is hardly preferable to the weather outside. Granted that foresight would have brought them to the ticket office earlier in the week, human nature dictates that the vast majority will always put the matter off until the last minute...