Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acres of timber; the Shenandoah National Park, 2,000 acres. Sizzling and snapping up Black Mountain in the Purgatory Range, flames leapt over into Kentucky forests, destroyed a lumber camp. Villagers in widely scattered mountain districts were alarmed. Firefighters deployed by thousands along the Alleghenies, prayed for rain...
Says Author Walpole, writing of England's northernmost county: "There is no ground in the world more mysterious, no land at once so bare in its nakedness a rich in its luxury, so warm with sun and so cold in pitiless rain, so gentle and pastoral, so wild and lonely; with sea and lake and river there is always the sound of running water, and its strong people have their feet in the soil and are independent of all men." Cumbrian natives say the same thing in fewer words: "Canny auld Cumberland bangs them a still...
...Rain threw wavering curtains across the arches of Putney Bridge as the two crews moved out and headed up the Thames. No Oxford crew had won since 1923, and because this one was rated as no better than other Oxford crews the people on the banks could hardly credit what they saw. Oxford slid out rowing quickly and smoothly, a half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned...
...boomed the half hour after 12 o'clock noon, two crows, calm and collected, were waiting on the Thames ready to dip their oars, about a minute later the starter's gun barked and off they were, rowing a smooth beat, while a slowly drizzling rain gradually was turning into a heavier downpour. That was the start of the eighty-second Oxford-Cambridge boat race last Saturday on the historic Thames. The two crews were tied in the number of victories--there were 40 wins for each and one dead heat--and now these two historic colleges, rich in tradition...
...South. So, with Breese, Captain Ingraham, and Ware helping out, the prospects aren't so bad. Incidentally, the weather has a lot to do with what a tennis team can accomplish during the season. Few of us realize that around Cambridge. Considering all the days wasted by rain, the lateness of the start of the season and all, there are really only about three weeks of decent playing weather...