Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading edge of the wing and impregnated with an oil which resists the formation of ice. There the scientists were faced with the problem of composing an oil which would not only offer zero-adhesion, but would not be scrubbed away by the action of 100-mile winds and rain. Further to render the scrubbing action impossible, the oils are absorbed into thin sheets of vulcanized rubber which in turn exude the mixture...
Died. Fritz Williams, 64, oldtime actor (Berkeley Square, Rain, The Makropoulos Secret); in Manhattan; of heart disease brought on by indigestion; while talking to friends at the Lambs' Club, of which he was Shepherd (president...
...this something must be done to determine the quantity of finer dust particles suspended in the atmosphere under various circumstances. This immediately leads to a study of the factors influencing this suspension of solid matter, for the facts seem to indicate some unexpected conclusions, such as that a rain storm does not materially reduce the 'dust count' of the atmosphere. And yet something is reducing it, or it would increase without limit. Much work remains to be done on this question...
Through all the rain and raw mist that swallowed Cambridge in one gulp last night an old comrade came slipping along in the mud all the way to Lowell House where the Vagabond lives in the construction shack. This true friend of Vagabondia brought good tidings of the morning's adventure...
...Tardieu, both looking rather dour, returned to Paris last week after a flying trip to southwestern France, they could well appreciate why the tricolor banners flying from the walls of the gayest city were tied with black bands. For in, the region whence they had come new torrents of rain had followed thg tragic deluge of last fortnight (TIME, March 17), impeding rescue work, causing new catastrophes. Whole villages had been vacated, and in the city of Bordeaux the populace watched fearfully the rise of the mighty River Garonne, swollen by downpours all along its course. In the villages...