Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third day's honors went to Pointer Ufton Congressman, obedient and stylish, but tired at the finish after a hard run over rain-drenched ground. His brace mate disgraced herself by chasing off after a covey of deer. Next good heat of the stake was run by Sulu, liver-&-white pointer bitch owned by Andrew G. C. Sage, whose Rapid Transit, champion in 1933, had run disappointingly the first day. Last year, Sulu had the honor of working in the runoffs as brace mate to Homewood Flirtatious the day Homewood Flirtatious won the Trials. Last week Sulu found...
...southwestern Texas for a fortnight little furry cotton seeds have been lying in the womb of Mother Earth sucking up winter rain, beginning to unfold inside, thrusting out little white roots, pushing up diminutive stalks. Day by day and mile by mile to the east and north other furry cotton seeds are being stuck into the ground for the same purpose. In a few weeks the cotton planting season will be over. For that reason the U. S. Senate last week curbed its 96 tongues, limiting each to 15 minutes exercise until a new farm bill should be passed. Passed...
...reason for these outcries was largely geological. Florida gets its rain in summer, but it grows its money crops, oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, avocados, celery, spinach, other truck, by irrigation in winter. Most of the water in central and southern Florida comes out of the "Ocala limestone." This dome-shaped stratum of rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir...
Wednesday's storm was only rain in the southern and western part of these states and there was enough base snow, so that light snow today would give almost perfect skiing...
...should receive a few more rays than the back of the planet, just as a child riding a carousel in the rain should be struck by more drops in front than in back. This small daily variation in the cosmic rays has actually been observed, so Dr. Compton agrees they must come from the remotest depths of space. What is their scientific importance? 1) A cosmic ray impact led to the discovery of the positive electron, a fundamental particle of matter. 2) The geographic distribution of the rays facilitates study of Earth's magnetic field. 3) For laboratory work...