Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northern front, rain continued to bog down all large-scale attacks. Bands from the Leftist "Lost Battalion," entrenched and virtually surrounded in the Pyrenees south of Lourdes, France, sallied forth in guerilla attacks, made no appreciable gains. As further encouragement to Rightist Franco the Vatican, following 18 months of semi-official recognition of his Government, this week granted him full diplomatic recognition...
Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...
...Rain kept the ball teams inactive yesterday, but it didn't daunt the Glee Club, who warbled through their program on schedule at 7 o'clock last night in the shelter of the Widener roof, while most of the audience shivered and dripped in a driving rain...
Edward L. Barnes '38, who scorned a coat, conducted the group from a watery perch on the steps. He relinquished his post to George W. Phillips '39 for the second half of the program, but Phillips was done out of being a martyr to his music; the rain had stopped...
There was talk of setting up pup tents on the turf, but no action. Several students made tents of their raincoats and tried to entice less fortunate Radcliffe girls to share their shelter. The girls defiantly lit cigarettes to show that they, at least, knew how to handle rain...