Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misleading weather forecast given President Conant on the day of the Harvard Tercentenary celebration of Sept. 18. I probably am the meteorologist referred to in the article, who advised President Conant that "there would be less than 0.1 inch (specifically, I said, 0.05 to 0.06 inch) intermittent rain before 12 noon, and that it would be increasing after that hour to become heavy by the evening, with strong NE wind...
Your correspondent said "the rain had indeed stopped," but that later "a fresh torrent of rain descended on the Yard...
...spite of the abnormally difficult situation created by the rapidly advancing tropical cyclone, the forecast was completely verified as at Blue Hill, a much more exposed location than Cambridge, the intermittent rain was 0.08 inch by 12:30 p.m., and at the Boston Airport station of the U. S. Weather Bureau a total of 0.06 inch was recorded by 1 p.m. At the end of the ceremony President Conant congratulated Dr. Brooks for the accuracy of the forecast obtained from Blue Hill, which made it possible to hold the exercises out of doors with a minor degree of inconvenience...
...World Series between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees, Pitcher Carl Hubbell of the Giants made just one mistake. That was a pitch which Yankee Outfielder Selkirk knocked into the right-field stands in the third inning for a home run. In a cold rain that started in the second inning, kept up throughout the game, Giant batters slowly ground out runs against Yankee Pitcher Ruffing-one in the fifth on Bartell's homer, another in the sixth, four more in the eighth when the Yankee infield blundered. Giants 6, Yankees...
...Polo Grounds, the car crossed the sidewalk, went through a gate usually reserved for groundkeepers' trucks, rolled across the outfield, stopped at a box near the Giant dugout. The President threw out the first ball of the second World Series game, postponed 24 hr. on account of rain...