Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain began to fall, breaking the long heat wave (see p. 9), the body of John Dillinger was lowered into a grave beside that of his mother. Mr. Fillmore intoned: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. . . ." The dirt was shovelled...
...score was also two matches to one in favor of Australia when towheaded Sidney B. Wood Jr. went out to play Australia's Jack Crawford. Inspired tennis won two sets for Wood, 6-3, 9-7 before rain postponed play for the day (TIME, July 30). Next afternoon, Wood's touch deserted him and Crawford, deliberate, steady, workmanlike, evened the score, 6-4, 6-4. Wood finally found his game in the last set, won it and the match...
...Brown was afraid of rain, which is likely to turn exposed fossils into meaningless brown powder. In sizzling heat that reached a 140° peak, the diggers dug drainage ditches, got tarpaulins and blankets ready, rushed work on a seven-mile road to the main highway...
Remains Argentina, whose acreage was reduced by droughts in the Southwest. Her surplus from this year's crop will not be more than 140,000,000 bu., some of which will have to go to Chile whose crop was damaged by too much rain...
...roar of 140,000 tractors hastily harvesting a premature crop, the shrill cries of village children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost heads of precious wheat, would drive the traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain, if he did not fly to Western China. There drought and the sun would drop him to earth at last, scorch him to death at 115°. But on his world junket the Argentine locust would have seen what sharp-eyed traders began to foresee last spring. There is not enough...