Word: downpour
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...University Band has been suffering a singular privation for several months. It was learned yesterday that the downpour which ruined so many objects at the Harvard-Yale football game last fall was the cause of reducing the musical scores from which the band was attempting to play to a condition of illegibility, and in some cases of disintegration...
...last ten years, even his smallest canvases have brought not less than $2,000. His Benediction- the painting of an old New England meetinghouse at Kennebunkport, Me., standing, proud and sombre, in the moon's white downpour- sold for $13,000. Always it was the New England scene that attracted him- meagre pastures fenced with stones, the delicate austerity of brown fields, sparse uplands, the monotones of spring and fall, the blue, flinty shadows of snow. His painting, like his life, was in the best U. S. tradition...
...passenger car were loaded with roast beef, spaghetti, Navy beans. No smoking and no throwing of anything overboard were almost the only severities to be endured. But when the Gulf was reached, the air grew bumpy, and fog was replaced by warm drizzling rain, changing to a downpour when the islands were approached. The Los Angeles had passed through fog and rain without difficulty, but when the port of Hamilton was actually sighted at 4:45 on Saturday morning, she was water-logged and very heavy. The S.S. Patoka, with the U. S. Consul at Hamilton and many Island officials...
Forcing the ball over in the last two minutes of play the Yale Freshman soccer team broke a tie score of 1 to 1 and defeated the University 1928 team 2 to 1. The game was played on a muddy field in a drenching downpour so that neither team had much chance for speedy or flashy play...
Every indication gives promise that the day will be comfortable as far as temperature goes, so that only moderate precautions will be needed to keep ward. But those who are wise will be prepared for rain, not the drenching downpour that flooded the Stadium last year, out showers of one sort or another