Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adelaide, Australia, there was even bigger news than Mr. Scullin's sunstroke. The three-year rain scarcity which has cursed South Australia with meagre grain crops suddenly gave way to what joyous editors headlined as "Splendid Rains...
...page news as soon as President Hoover had held his White House conferences and told the States affected how to set up relief machinery without U. S. Treasury aid (TIME, Aug. 18). The mild public hysteria that had marked official action and pronouncements subsided. But still little or no rain fell over the blighted areas of Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Last week as the drought passed into its fifth month Government officials took fresh stock of the conditions it had produced. Results of their observations...
...spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara, in Newport, he does calesthenics on deck in pajamas. After breakfast he goes aboard Enterprise, wearing a business suit and a felt hat. to supervise the daily tinkering with the rigging. In the rain he wears a yellow slicker, but often sails the big yacht in shirtsleeves. When there is the slightest imperfection in the way the boat is handled in practice he puts about and goes through the maneuver over again. He speaks quietly to the crew and addresses his sailing master...
...captain refused to accept letters addressed to his homeland. An hour after their departure, Capt. von Gronau radioed to an astounded family, school and Transportation Ministry that he was headed west. Soon the plane reached Ivigtut, Greenland, pushed on to Cartwright Bay, Labrador, was forced down by rain at Queensport Harbor, N. S.; there waited for clear weather to fly to New York. Back at List, envious left-behind students crowded the inns, "Hoched"' their lucky colleagues and their respected chief time and time again in "Sylter waves," a local concoction of rum, claret & pepper...
...tournament was virtually over. After a postponement for rain, Betty Nuthall played Mrs. Harper, who had disposed of the Baroness. There were a few minutes in the second set when Mrs. Harper put up fight. Before and after that there was nothing to it. Betty Nuthall had won the championship of the U. S. in 36 minutes, 6-1. 6-4, first time in 43 years it has left the country...