Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death was not ready for him. Fifteen stories up, a narrow ledge broke his fall, saved his life, left him with a leg jammed in a masonry hole. For six days and nights he struggled to tear his leg free, screamed, stared up at the sky through wind, rain, sun, mist. Then, as a workman discovered him, Death was ready for Shirley Brewer...
...less than the April estimate and 171,000,-ooo bu. less than the five-year average. There was little connection between the expenditure and the shrinkage, for a crop reduction agent more potent than AAA was at work. From Saskatchewan to Texas, from Montana to Ohio hardly any rain had fallen for a month. As dry day followed dry day crop estimators lopped 2,000,000 bu. from their wheat prediction every morning. Before the week was out the winter wheat estimate had fallen to 442,000,000 bu. In Washington these were dry statistics but in the Midwest, disastrous...
...ambitious Kirkland divot-diggers received another set-back on the links yesterday afternoon at the hands of a Pioneer golf team which showed one of its better brands of playing in the mud and rain, and came through to humble the Deacons...
...producer because, like the rest of his family, he is endowed with a touch of the spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with a strand of Magdalen's hair), a door bell going Ting-a-ling-a-ling, an old family servitor, a Southern belle you-alling in crinolines...
Chicago, May 13--A great cry of joy and relief went up from farmers today as rain settled the dust...