Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson looked like a real ball club in the first half, playing rings around the Indians and barely missing several more goals. Goalie Jack Penson scarcely had a workout until the beginning of the third period, when the Dartmouth forwards and the rain simultaneously began to pelt...
When her postmaster father, appointed by Lincoln, died, she filled out his term, was officially designated for the job by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor machination of local politico has interrupted her service since...
Last week rain fell continuously on the Western Front. In the 20-mile sector north of the Swiss border which faces the rocky fortress of Istein-Germany's "Gibraltar of the Rhine"-sodden French infantrymen came in from patrol to report that across the swelling river the German troops were busy in the flats. To stop this activity-whatever it was-French engineers had an answer that cost no lives, no ammunition. They closed the gates that drain Rhine water into the Rhine-Rhone Canal, let the river flood the flats...
...Many coaches merely pray for clear weather instead of being prepared for rain with a weapon which clicks any day. Rain jeopardizes passes, mud curtails fancy running plays, but kicking rises in effectiveness in bad weather. Teams must kick twice as often in bad weather and better kicking wins...
...York at Boston, both games postponed-rain...