Word: raines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first day, a mushy sky spilled rain on a crowd of 3,000, scattered through grandstands built to hold 60,000. Layers of grey soup stretched to Wheeling, W. Va., delaying overnight a score of pilots in the William B. Leeds and Charles Lanier Lawrence Trophy Races which had started that morning at Roosevelt Field, L. I., and were supposed to finish that afternoon. Because those entrants were late, the only closed-course race on the day's program had to be canceled...
...week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing ceased...
...grey mud-&-stone village of Hotevilla. But the Hopi, who had heard those drum beats all night, paid little heed to visitors. Their minds behind weirdly painted faces were intent on a thing savage, religious and remote. Their eyes were upon the parched earth to which they must bring rain. Ceremony- Throughout the dry Arizona summer Hopi medicine men keep one eye on the ground, the other on the sky. In August when the corn and melon vines begin to wither, the Hopi whisper that "the little ones" are angry. Then one day the medicine men set a date...
...match in the second round against Mrs. Burke which she won 10-8, 10-8, but her first real test came two rounds later against Mrs. Lawrence Harper who was runner-up in 1930, when Helen Wills Moody stayed in California. They played their first set in a pouring rain and Carolyn Babcock won 6-3. Next day they went out to finish and Mrs. Harper, with a day to get over the shock of being outplayed by an unranked opponent, ran the score up to 5-2 and set point. That was as far as she could get. Carolyn...
...transporting of the heavy loads of material up the side of the mountain through wind, rain and the heartbreaking drag of the slush and melting ice calls for hard work and lots of it. . . . Captain Bob Bartlett. . . is on the job all day long, encouraging, joking with them and occasionally rewarding them with a cup of coffee or sugar or tobacco...