Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calculations have, however, been made with the prospect of having a good dry field for the game. But yesterday the weather man changed the aspect of the tilt by ordering rain, and although he has promised fair weather for today there is no telling just what the field will be like. The canvas covering that groundkeeper Dennis Enright always gets out on rainy days covered the gridiron all day yesterday but consistent rains will make the field soggy just the same...
...following day, The Dartmouth's editorial column was filled with nothing but--Wear your shorts, wear your shorts, wear your shorts, etc. It appeared in large bold type, and minute type, but it appeared nevertheless. The editorial ended with, "Rain or shine, put on your shorts, sleet or snow, put on your shorts; fair or foul, put on your shorts, blustery or balmy, put on your shorts right now before you have your coffee and doughnuts, PUT ON YOUR SHORTS...
...last week in August the Corps partakes of field maneuvers off the reservation. This battle problem, known as the Battle of Popolopen, lasts three days. The first class rides, the yearlings hike, and the battle is declared a great success and victory. Once, years ago, rain did not fall during maneuvers...
...Beauvais, French cathedral town, 49 mi. northwest of Paris, restive peasants heard a strumming through their night-shuttered windows. It was long after midnight. It was difficult to remove the shutters, for a hard rain storm, but one no harder than usual for the season, was blowing in from the Atlantic. When they could look abroad there, seemingly within reach of a man on earth, was the breath-taking silvery bulk of the R-101. She was lurching along, a gigantic stricken thing, 400 ft. from the ground...
...very strange thing about this disaster. In similar dirigible wrecks, viz., those of the Shenandoah and the ZR2 (built by England, sold to the U. S.; destroyed over Hull, Eng., Aug. 1921), wind whirled the vessels high before their destruction. In the R-101'S case, the wind and rain seemed to have done the reverse, pressed the ship down to earth, buckled it from above...