Word: fenenga
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Franklin Fenenga, archeologist of the University of California (where the cyclotrons grow biggest), has a "rainmaking bag" that once belonged to a 103-year-old Indian medicine man. The bag contains a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, some eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra, various kinds of pebbles, minerals and other dependable rainmakers. According to a report in the New York Times last week, Dr. Fenenga recently used his bag on Kern County, where there had been no rain for eight months...
Sure enough, the heavens opened; the rain beat down upon Kern County. Dr. Fenenga then took his bag to Berkeley and found the great cyclotron buildings drenched with welcome rain. With a solemn face, he presented the rainmaking bag, beaver tail, eagle down & all, to the University of California...
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