Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various sections around Mt. Washington a temperature in the middle thirties is predicted, but rain is also expected. Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, Mt. Washington reported ten inches of snow, the highest in the New England states and Pinkham Notch measured nine inches...
...called "Popular Front" of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists opposing the Premier split, Boss Edouard Herriot of the Radical Socialists holding back the bulk of his Radical Socialists, temporarily at least, from the onslaught demanded by Boss Léon Blum of the Socialists. What with the rain and the split, Premier Pierre Laval, astute and earthy, was able to face the Chamber of Deputies with a small piece of paper on which he lazily drew lines back & forth with a stubby pencil. Except for the continuing flight of gold, the anticlimax could not have been more complete. "Save...
Year ago the California Jockey Club, headed by Novelist Peter B. Kyne, baptized the new $500,000 Bay Meadows track, 20 miles out of San Francisco, with high hopes. Promptly these hopes were dashed. Rain always transformed the new track into a morass of mud which always dried out hard as rock, ruined the hoofs of many a horse, the disposition of many a jockey...
Fortnight ago an obscure 8-year-old named Winslow proved Expert Jones correct. Apparently unaware that a heavy rain had fallen the night before, the aged gelding romped over the rubbery, cushioned surface to set a new track record (2:04 3/5) over the 1¼ mile course. Astonished horsemen believe that this discovery, applied to other courses, may well lop off several seconds from existing records, will at least remove the bane of all racing men, a slow, wet track...
Overjoyed Harvard students are in the position of Adam and Eve when the bank foreclosed on Eden, because, even if the two-week vacation is rain from heaven, it seems to be given for this year only. But, being accustomed to such a paradise of leisure, Harvard men will not permit it to be taken away again. The University has taken a step in the right direction; its next must be to make a generous Christmas vacation a permanent part of the schedule...