Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday the Vagabond got in his car and bounced merrily down to Fairhaven to look at his boat. The day overhead was dark, and occasional drops of rain and mist spread over his windshield as he made his way through the New England manufacturing towns that lie between Boston and New Bedford, and the harbor looked cold and grey to him as he crossed over the bridge to Fairhaven and pulled through winding slum streets to the yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making...
...front-paged in the Soviet press day after day. In several cases a promoted youth was astonished to find his picture almost as big as the one appearing of the Dictator. Joseph Stalin ordered the traditional celebration of Youth Day in the Red Square, but a furious downpour of rain forced the Dictator to postpone it for six days when roughly a million youths, calling themselves the "Stalinist generation," paraded before the khaki-coated, pipe-smoking Dictator. Meanwhile Stalin had his Government triumphantly announce that...
Elsewhere in the north there was more trouble. Japanese reinforcements pouring all week long through Peiping, put the total Japanese force in North China under Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki at well over 90,000 men. Through driving rain and mud hip-high to the short-legged Japanese, lines were pushed straight through to Kalgan in Chahar Province, giving Japan final control of the vitally important Nan-kow Pass and Peiping-Kalgan railroad, the line that Japan must have if she is to control North China (or ever attempt to attack Russia through southern Siberia...
...requires a lot of floating power and fanny-ing." In groups or singly, the dancers do such steps-mostly of Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon a somewhat reverent note, with everybody leaning back and raising his arms heavenward. This movement is called "Praise Allah." Through it all, the "caller" shouts continuously-"Truck to the right. . . . Reverse it. . . . To the left. . . . In place. . . . Stomp that right foot. . . . Swing...
...source of cosmic rays, brought the matter of supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. He said then that supernovae probably cease to exist as ordinary stars; that protons and electrons coalesce on the surface into neutrons which, having no electric charges to repel one another, "rain" down toward the centre, pack sluggishly together, creating a heavy, lifeless "neutron star." With the possible exception of one 19th Century supernova, the supernova reported by Dr. Zwicky last week was the brightest ever studied by modern astronomers. It was ten times brighter than the average supernova, 100 times brighter...