Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baseball team of the Quantico Marines was prevented from taking revenge on the Crimson nine's early season victory of 8 to 2, when rain prevented the playing of the game scheduled for yesterday afternoon. Both teams were on the field ready to play when a hard shower came up that soaked the field and made play impossible. It was not possible to postpone the game because of the full schedule of the Marine team so it was definitely cancelled...
...Rain. Next day all over India driblets of rain began to fall. More than simply the beginning of the torrential monsoon season, the showers signalized the entry of St. Gandhi's campaign into its second. more serious phase, that of nonpayment of taxes. With the monsoons, salt marshes become morasses of mud and slime, inaccessible alike to the Briton and to the Gandhiman...
Stirred by its New York correspondent's report that a Wet wind is now blowing across the U. S., Madrid's great Catholic daily El Debate prepared last week for rain...
...spend on each production, a chorus of 84 "Muny"-trained native sons and daughters, a professional ballet of 16, a symphony orchestra of 50, a different cast of first-rate performers for each presentation (an innovation). On good nights when it does not look like rain, he may pack his roofless house with 8,000 spectators-1,600 of whom get free seats. This season's repertoire includes: The Desert Song, Madame Pompadour, The New Moon, Blossom Time, Show Boat. For its first few years the project staged only light operas, such as Robin Hood, The Mikado, The Yeomen...
They ran the preliminaries in a driving rain at Evanston, Ill. Simpson and Tolan won their heats as expected. Simpson's time of 9.7 was one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. Tolan was smart, said Michigan supporters: He was not going to run his heart out in the tryouts. Let Simpson show off all he wanted to. Next day the rain cleared off but left the air cold and windy. Going to the line the runners kept their sweaters on as long as they could. As they crouched in their lanes, digging their spikes into...