Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Building of the Barbed Wire Fences, is a scene of Territorial industry. In front of a sod house a woman and child pare potatoes; near by, on a wagon, the farmer with a sledge hammer drives a fence post in the ground. The foreground is shielded by rain clouds, but the sun strikes through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted in the standard Curry colors-reds for Oklahoma...
Week's end came and still no rain fell on northwest Oregon (where annual precipitation is normally 43.17 in.). Fitful breezes made the flames doubly capricious and dangerous. Roads were closed, armies of volunteers set backfires to head off the destroyer. In Washington, the red tiger rambled from the rough hills 45 miles north of Spokane on to the east and south, eating deeply into resort towns in the Liberty Lakes country, finally jumping the border into Idaho, where 1,500 men fought the flames at Spirit Lake. With more than 200,000 acres burned & burning, the fire strode...
Master word-painter that he is, Mr. Roosevelt painted once more the sombre scene of war preparations in Europe, of foreboding peoples, massing armies, cities full of women & children trembling beneath a sky that soon might rain horror. (Ambassador Joe Davies had reported home from Belgium that very morning, "not at all happy about the situation.") Cordell Hull picked up the narrative when his chief was through, but was presently interrupted by leonine Senator Borah. He, too, he said, receives advices from abroad. Moreover, he reads foreign newspapers. He begged to differ with the chiefs of state that...
...eleven centuries, the superstitious have believed that if rain fell on St. Swithin's Day (July 15), rain would thereafter fall for 40 days; and vice versa. This year's dry St. Swithin's Day was followed by an Eastern drought, with crops burning in four States...
...Italy all last week Benito Mussolini's self-flown, trimotored airplane zoomed down from the sky into the busy countryside as II Duce kept a weather eye on the vital 5,400,000-hectare wheat harvest now in full swing. High winds, heavy rains and floods in May kept the wheat crop close to last year's figure of 293,600,000 bushels though 4% more land was seeded. Quality was poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna...