Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale turned up with a new gadget yesterday at the Junior Varsity game in the form of a portable shower. Managers would drag the machine onto the field during time outs, pump furiously, and refresh weary players with gentle rain...
...cluttered, it is because Author Kirstein was unwilling to neglect any phase or style of dancing which even remotely contributed to the evolution of the art as it is currently known. He begins with primitive tribes which danced instinctively to celebrate birth, adolescence, fertility, danced when they needed rain, danced for hunting, planting, warring, danced over their sick, danced over their dead. Dancing was a species of worship as it exhibited itself in ancient Egypt. With the great Greek tragedies dancing entered the theatre, developed until it followed a play's mood as surely as the choral chanting. Dancing...
...menacing bulge will be sucked out of its earthward face by terrestrial attraction. It will grow to a giant disk covering one-twentieth of the sky, lighting the night with baleful splendor. The lunar mountains, four miles high, will crack and crumble. Earth will shudder, open tremendous crevasses. The rain of moon fragments, falling as meteorites heated by atmospheric friction, will make steaming cauldrons of the seas, a smoking ruin of the land. At 20,000 miles what remains of the moon will break in two. then into successively smaller pieces, some of which, falling into satellitic orbits, will form...
Attendance at games this year was slightly above that of last year, with the exception of the rain-drenched Brown game. Some 15,000 are due to witness the New Hampshire game tomorrow...
...hard. Rain leaked through the roof of the little dark house where we lived and it was damp. We had poor food, but he was always a loving and considerate son-a model...