Word: droughts
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...Folks," he told his audience, "this is a fine Harvard football team. Next week we'll follow it against Holy Cross--one of the East's top squads; and they'll be in there fighting all the way. Folks," he added, "the drought at Harvard is over...
...while one rejoices to see such public confidence in Mr. Jordan's squad, one would have to share the opinion of many who viewed Saturday's victory that the drought is, regrettably, not yet ended...
...Crimson was at the lowest ebb. In its football history when Jordan moved in. It has fashioned, respectively, one-and-eight and one-and-seven records over the last two seasons. And Jordan himself realizes that the end of the drought is not within immediate sight...
...give the story an upbeat ending that its ancient chronicler overlooked, Scripter Dunne confronts the sinful David with a rebellious populace, a drought in the land and an angry Raymond Massey, who, as Nathan the Prophet, speaks loudly and carries a big stick. All can be made well-and obviously will be-if David will return to the prayerful, God-fearing ways of his youth. While David prays, the movie unaccountably wanders off on a tangent in flashback, interrupting its climax for a blow-by-blow account of how young David slew Goliath, played by hulking...
...Joaquin at Mendota Pool. Then it will run down the San Joaquin, irrigating downstream lands. The payoff comes at the extreme southern end of the Central Valley. Friant Dam will divert San Joaquin water that would otherwise be needed downstream and send it through a 153-mile canal to drought-plagued Bakersfield. No Sacramento water will actually get to Bakersfield, but the effect will be just the same. As the bureaumen put it: "The rain will move 500 miles south...