Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 100 people were gathered around the crimson-draped platform as President Conant rose to speak in the light rain that was still falling. Characterizing the new Graduate School as "Harvard's response to the general challenge of the times, he pointed out that it was made possible only through the generosity of "a loyal and devoted son of Harvard...
Taking their first day off of the season, the Varsity baseball team played visiting firemen at the Red Sox-Indians game yesterday afternoon. The only dampener came when the rain descended just before the first inning, causing the game to be postponed...
...hour Leftist counteroffensive amid deep mud, as the fine weather which has favored Generalissimo Francisco Franco's advance for six weeks gave way to rain, Rightists were stopped in their tracks, then managed to resume their offensive, announced the taking of 2,000 Leftist prisoners, nearly all youths under 20. The Rightists accused their retreating foes of having massacred 100 civilians of Alcala de Chivert before evacuating this town, claimed on entering it to have found the Leftists had burned the mayor alive at a stake...
...minutes after ten o'clock on the night of May 4, 1886, a storm began to blow up in Chicago. As the first drops of rain fell, a crowd in Haymarket Square, in the packing house district, began to break up. At eight o'clock there had been 3,000 persons on hand, listening to anarchists denounce the brutality of the police and demand the eight-hour day, but by ten there were only a few hundred. The mayor, who had waited around in expectation of trouble, went home, and went to bed. The last speaker was finishing...
Five consecutive hits in the last of the ninth inning scored three Crimson runs yesterday afternoon as Pennsylvania dropped a 10-9 decision to the Mitchell nine on rain-driven Soldiers Field in a weird game twice halted by down-pours...