![]() ![]() Hundreds of noises wove themselves into a wiry texture of sound with barbs protruding here and there, smart edges running along it and subsiding again, with clear notes splintering off and dissipating. ![]() Where more powerful lines of speed cut across their casual haste they clotted up, then trickled on faster and, after a few oscillations, resumed their steady rhythm. Dark clusters of pedestrians formed cloudlike strings. In a word that characterizes the facts fairly accurately, even if it is a bit old-fashioned: It was a fine day in August 1913.Īutomobiles shot out of deep, narrow streets into the shallows of bright squares. The water vapor in the air was at its maximal state of tension, while the humidity was minimal. The rising and setting of the sun, the moon, the phases of the moon, of Venus, of the rings of Saturn, and many other significant phenomena were all in accordance with the forecasts in the astronomical yearbooks. The air temperature was appropriate relative to the annual mean temperature and to the aperiodic monthly fluctuations of the temperature. ![]() The isotherms and isotheres were functioning as they should. It moved eastward toward a high-pressure area over Russia without as yet showing any inclination to bypass this high in a northerly direction. FROM WHICH, REMARKABLY ENOUGH, NOTHING DEVELOPSĪ barometric low hung over the Atlantic. ![]()
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