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Famed among many famed young men at the Drake Relays, Iowa, was Charlie Paddock of Pasadena . In a downpour of rain, racing against three University of Iowa freshmen, he ran 100 yards in 93/5 seconds, unofficially equalling the world's record. True, he beat the gun by a fraction...
...little before six o'clock in the morning the S. S. President Harding steamed into Plymouth Harbor amid a downpour of rain which cloaked the fair hills of Devon in a pall of heavy mist...
Once the unsportsmanlike downpour, however, having seen its victims definitely wedged each in his own Sitz bath, had started in to do a little constructive drenching, the laugh was shed gently from the oilcloth shoulders of the proletariat onto the sogginess of mackintosh and rubber-silk rainster. It is not hard to predict that another such a day will see the covering of mother's kitchen table going at a premium and linoleum lap-robes across the knees of the elite...
RAIN?Jeanne Eagels knocks the spirit of the blue-laws for a row of foreign missionaries in a gorgeous reductio ad absurdum of inbred Puritanism, accompanied onstage by a tropical downpour that makes you wonder why you forgot your umbrella...
Playing amid a downpour of rain on the flooded Belmont Springs Country Club links, the University golf team won a 6-3 victory on Saturday over Pennsylvania. Due to the slow course the medal scores were low, but the Crimson led easily in both the doubles and foursomes. Playing in the second position, A. L. Peirson '21 won over Captain Rownd of Pennsylvania four and three, but Captain H. S. Lake '20 lost his match to Rhoades two and one. For the University, C. W. Baker '22 and F. McN. Bacon '21 won easily over their opponents, J.H.Eaton '22 lost...