Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking for lacrosse, as the sport with whose situation I am intimately acquainted, I wish to call your attention to the fact that we do not always have rain for our games, that lacrosse is played, as football is played, regardless of weather conditions, and that the spring lacrosse trip more than covers its own expenses. It has not cost the H.A.A. money to send the lacrosse team on a spring trip in at least four years. Beyond that my personal knowledge does not carry...
...case of rain the Class Day program will be as below: If it should stop raining during the day the regular program will be followed thereafter...
...about the games they did not play below the Mason-Dixon line. Practically everybody on the baseball, tennis, and lacrosse teams enjoyed themselves hugely, but the fact remains that the party was on the Athletic Association, who have sacrificed a good deal of money before the god of rain, and therefore have been unable to take care of some of the teams that are crying for extra funds at home...
Certainly it is doubtful whether the tennis expedition to Washington and Annapolis was worth the expense. Out of the possible four days for tennis, it rained steadily during two of them, on another Harvard played a Washington team with the temperature hovering at thirty-nine, and against Navy on Saturday a downpour broke loose half way through the match. The team could have had more practice indoors at Cambridge. Even the lacrosse team, which played its games through mud and rain, spent money which could better be used for some under-coached or ill-equipped minor sport. Soccer, fencing...
...There are peculiar species of fauna in these rain forests," the former curator of the Nirobi Museum of Natural History continued, "that are unrelated to anything on the surrounding plains, and much more like Western African varieties...