Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust...
Later in the summer the new antenna was used to measure the effective temperatures of someof the planets and to map the center of our galaxy at 5,000 megacycles. Operations ended in September, however, because rain water leaked into the equipment at the focus of the giant dish, and caused the receiver to mal-function. Once this equipment is made watertight, work at the station should proceed rapidly. Dr. Maxwells hopes to make extensive studies of individual sources of celestial radiation. With over 100 sources to be examined, the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station will not be idle during...
Rainfall in most of that region averages only about 5 in. per year, barely enough to support the dustiest desert vegetation. But the Nabataeans learned how to concentrate the rain, leading the water off bare plateaus and making it flow gently down narrow valleys so that it filled cisterns cut in the rock and sank into the fields enclosed in stone walls. Valleys that are now deserted except for wandering Bedouins, once supported strings of villages. The country has never been as thickly inhabited since...
...Much Rain. LAMCO has had its troubles. Liberia's 180-in. annual rainfall has repeatedly washed away roads and railbeds. European and American managers quarreled under the strain of high-pressure work at high-level humidity. The Swedes unwisely promised to train Liberians for skilled-labor and executive jobs in advance, then found that during the hectic construction period they had no time to do any training. Though the company is belatedly catching up with its promise, it has ruffled feelings among the Liberians...
...amount of overflow is especially great after a rainstorm in the area. Most of the cities along the route do not have separate storm and waste sewer systems. Consequently, after a rain, the water run-off and the normal sewage combine to produce a large volume of flow, all of which must be fed into the MDC truck lines. The additional water requires the discharge of diluted sewage into the river through the overflow valves...