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Word: rainiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas' huge production, To Broadway with Love, costs from $2 to $4.80 and is an oversized, undertalented anthology of Broadway show tunes-done by performers who seem to have been drawn from the senior class at high school. A circus playing to 35 people is one of the rainiest sights in the world, and one can see it in the Ringling tent. The circus is a good one too. Finally, the entire amusement area is ringed by American Machine & Foundry's monorail, which is a good ride but commands a view of the dreariest part of the fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: The World of Already | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Sheep Crossing. Previously famed mainly as Ludwig van Beethoven's birthplace, Bonn today is known to diplomats as the most inconvenient, uncomfortable capital this side of Usumbura. True, the Rhine offers a lovely, healing view to harassed government types, but Bonn is Germany's rainiest (161.8 days a year) and most densely populated city; its traffic is the heaviest, its rentals among the highest. "The city is just half the size of Chicago's Central Cemetery," says a U.S. diplomat. "And twice as dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: C'est Si Bonn | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...varsity hockey team took on the White Mules of Colby College last night in some of the rainiest hockey weather you'll ever see. The rain didn't seem to bother the Crimson--perhaps because they were playing indoors--and before the game was over they had slapped seven goals past goalie Larry Sawler to hand Colby their fourth straight loss of the season. Colby scored once...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Flourish of Three Second Period Scores Swamps Sluggish White Mule Sextet, 7-1 | 12/6/1962 | See Source »

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