Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this flourishing of big money looked as though Japan had plenty where that came from. But in fact the condition of Japan's masses, particularly the farmers, is disastrous. Cold, wind and rain have more than halved the rice crop. Many peasants cannot pay their crushing taxes. So bitterly has starvation thinned Japanese blood that in Aomori Prefecture 83% of the men called for military service were too weak and tottering to be accepted for the wars...
...that day and the next the Macon cruised down the rough, ragged shoreline while battleships and cruisers sported about on the Pacific below her. Off Santa Monica there was wind and rain but the airship had often bucked worse weather without trouble. By the time the Macon was ready to turn around and start for home, the little storm was practically over and the air had cleared enough for persons on shore to see her red and green lights flashing through the dusk...
...Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that a friend had sent...
...Rain, the tale of a conflict between a chippy and the Church on a South Sea island, was the dramatic success of 1922. Its profanity, its treatment of the problem of "sex-starvation," its revelations on the Freudian significance of dreams about "the mountains of Nebraska" titivated the Harding era. The late Jeanne Eagels played Sadie Thompson, the raffish trollop, up to the hilt, and after the play had run two years on Broadway she was established as one of the U. S. theatre's legendary great...
...theory has arisen in recent years about long-range weather forecasting that the rich, inquisitive Carnegie Institution of Washington lately decided that it must have more information on this stormy subject. Last week it seemed eminently proper that the Institution should turn to a man who knows how much rain has fallen every year, wet or dry, in various corners of the world, for hundreds and even thousands of years...