Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With its captain and fullback, Nollie ("Papa'') Felts, permanently barred from varsity athletics because he once played professional baseball, Tulane, threatening to leave the Southern Conference at the season's end, managed to tie Vanderbilt in the rain...
...driving rain at Birmingham, Alabama's John Cain and Tennessee's Beattie Feathers had a punting duel. Cain's kicks averaged 48 yards to Feathers' 43. but he made one bad one, behind his own goal line. Tennessee took the ball on the 11-yd. line and Feathers carried it across for Tennessee's touchdown...
...melodrama of Chinese life, now in its 23rd edition, will find the Guild's adaptation, which rang up the curtain on its 15th season, a brief paraphrase of the novel. Wang Lung, the hardy farmer, as greedy for more land as the soil is greedy for sun and rain, does not die at the conclusion as he does in the book. And he has not three sons given him by OLan, the big-boned, but one. It is OLan, with a hard knot in her womb from brutal child-bearing and brutal work, whose death climaxes with dignity this...
...trees and towers of the college. Before Dr. Baker stood "Quail Hill," an old, boarded-up Georgian house whose owners used to entertain him and his wife. Dusk fell. Presently the weary, 66-year-old pedagog stumbled, fell by a stream near the highway. In the night a wind & rain storm beat down on "Quail Hill...
Taking the field in spite of the rain yesterday afternoon, the squad put on the Green's long and short passes, since in last week's encounter with Pennsylvania, the Dartmouth passing machine worked with hairtrigger precision, although the Indians bowed before the rushes...