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April 2009In Case You Were WonderingSeventy-five years ago this month, on April 12, 1934, scientists at New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory recorded the strongest ever naturally occurring wind: a blast measuring 231 mph. In case you were wondering, words about wind are blown throughout the dictionary. Entering wind into the Search box of the Unabridged yields such classics as bag of wind, baffling wind, break wind, second wind, and trade wind. Or try this search: select Definition from the Search Type drop-down menu. Type wind into the search box. It turns up a gale force wind of 1,320 entries, a few of which landed gently here: |