Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 21 the storm reached Long Island. More destructive hurricanes have bombarded U. S. shores, but never has a hurricane struck a region so thickly populated and so unprepared. Inattentive to weather reports, many a landsman had his first intimation that the wind and rain were more than an equinoctial storm, when he had a "funny feeling'' in his ears-the effect of sudden low pressure, like that of going up in an elevator...
Aftermath. As the storm raced inland, veering northwest toward Montreal, it flattened crops and orchards, wrenched away miles of wires, acres of signboards. It blew away the famed Jacobs Ladder trestle on Mt. Washington. Dumping trillions of tons of rain on New England, the hurricane swelled rivers already swollen by three days of ordinary rain. Highways and railroads were washed out. In the Connecticut Valley cities marshaled sandbag brigades. Hartford held its breath while the dike by the Colt Arms factory held through a flood stage 36.45 feet. In the Thames Valley, Norwich, Conn., isolated, was supplied with food...
Before the last concert had taken place, Pittsfield was hit by the worst wind and rain storm in local history. Outside the little white auditorium, like a chambered nautilus, the hurricane howled. But to chamber-music fans, storms are merely a loud noise. When the lights went out, they rigged up light for the musicians from an automobile battery, listened away in the dark...
More than 60% of the thousands who took to the air when last week's wind and rain washed out transportation facilities on the eastern seaboard (see p. 11) had never flown before. Between Manhattan and Boston, American Airlines, only line flying the 200 mile route, carries about 200 passengers on its ten scheduled flights back and forth. But on each of the first two days following the hurricane 1,000 passengers were flown from Manhattan to Boston alone and perhaps half that number carried from Boston to Manhattan by a combined service of four lines. By this week...
...cannot be denied that much time is wasted in elementary courses for the sake of complying with the red tape of University Hall. Another solution might be to introduce the type of course so popular in some other colleges, which would go under the name of Civilization 1 and rain culture on the just and the unjust...