Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corn is not the only thing that grows fast and big on the sunbaked, rain-drenched prairies of Illinois. A single tree was all that broke the flat monotony of a stretch of prairie between Urbana and West Urbana (now Champaign) in 1867 when citizens planted a State university there. In 67 years their seed has blossomed into the nation's seventh largest university. The 1,500-acre waste of prairie is green and landscaped, thick with great buildings. The new president whom trustees picked last week will administer a faculty & student body numbering 15,000 and a plant...
...mention in the annual report was news of Banker Giannini's latest excursion out of his native California across the Sierras. Last fortnight Transamerica announced that it had purchased Nevada's biggest bank, First National of Reno. Nevada is as short of banks as it is of rain. It was the first state to declare a moratorium during the Depression-Nov. 1, 1932, day after it celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining speculator, never...
Poor Daniel. It may be that he was not wanted, and that the end of the tale will be disclosed with mute clarity when a skeleton in a burlap bag is washed ashore on the coast of Connecticut. But when the grim remains, whitened by wind and rain, are laid gently to rest, they will have the sympathy and respect of every true sportsman. Daniel has been a noble beast, and, like all good dogs...
...changed since the tenth century, B.C., they are mistaken. There is very little precipitation in Arabia, and the only things which tend to change the topography are sand storms, but these are few in number. Relics found in deep gulleys, where water would have flowed if there was much rain, are perfectly preserved; some tomb stones and monuments have been toppled over, it is true, because of the corrosion caused by sand around the bases, but the inscriptions are still intact...
Basic "I was in the War, not as one in authority, but as a common man. That gave me knowledge of the effects of war. Sad memories of those years when the young men of all countries went down in such numbers under the rain of lead are even now in my mind...