Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amazing in a city whose annual rain fall is 15.2 in., a steady, soaking rain fell in Southern California, recording eleven inches in five days. As unprepared for such an event as Los Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills behind the city, the mountains behind the hills, it sluiced down across the narrow coastal plain on which the city and its scattered suburbs sprawl over 482 square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over...
Specific evils pointed to in the arrangements made by the 1937 Class Day Committee were failure to plan in advance for rain, which materialized, failure to notify guests in advance of the location of their reservations, failure to make the orchestra leader contracted for attend, and failure to provide an adequate amplifying system...
Finally Hiroshia is reached, who in the period between 1815 and 1858 became the master of the Japanese landscape school. One of his best works, "White Rain," shows originality of composition and a fine use of atmospheric effects...
Ding, ding, ding, rings the bell. Thump, thump, thump, starts the machine: PARIS-PREMIER BOUILLABAISSE AND HIS CABINET DROVE THIS EVENING IN A POURING RAIN TO THE ELYSEE PALACE TO PRESENT THEIR RESIGNATIONS TO PRESIDENT...
...Weather Bureau reporting that snow is expected to fall throughout New Hampshire and Vermont today and tonight. A considerable fall is expected. The temperature will rise today but will remain below freezing. But for those who expect to ski around Boston there is no hope, for the report is: rain and warmer...