Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today is a nice but cloudy day-nice to go to a county fair and sleep on a surrey seat. Tomorrow it will likely rain-a good day to stay home and commune with Mr. Liddy's invention...
...week, for the first time in 27 years, it was a rainy Patriots' Day. Less than 100,000 spectators lined the 26-mile, 385-yard route, from the little town of Hopkinton-via Natick, Wellesley and Newton -to the Boston A. A. clubhouse on Exeter Street. But the rain that was responsible for the smallest turnout in many years was also responsible for a new record in the annals of the ancient sport of foot racing...
Lengthening the gap on each hill, the wooden-faced Indian, pattering along in the rain, was soon out of sight of his closest rival. When he reached the finish line, a roar of applause greeted him. His time: 2 hr., 28 min., 51 4/5 sec.-more than 27 seconds faster than the alltime record set by Japan's Kitei Son in the 1936 Olympics. Crowned with the traditional laurel wreath and hailed as a super-runner, Marathoner Brown, a stone mason by trade, smiled feebly. Said he: "I would like to have a steady job instead...
...Detroit, Hotel Manager William 0. Seelbach, thinking (with a wink) to insure the city against rain during an outdoor industrial exhibition, invited 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. (TIME, April 10) to come to Detroit while the show was on, without her umbrella. Rain Maker Stoat refused to come. It rained and snowed...
...York 2, Boston 3; Philadelphia 1, Brooklyn 3; St, Louis 1, Chicago 4; Cincinnati at Pittsburgh postponed, rain...