Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to cope with the superior speed and passing attack of their England fees, the Crimson rugby team was submerged Saturday afternoon 50-0 in the mire of Soldiers Field before a scant 500 rain-defying fans...
...automatic awning which lowers itself when rain starts...
...grapes, the village of Velrans likes sunlight; for its cabbages, the adjoining village of Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and the prayers went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow...
Originally planned for the end of this week, the work has been held up because of the rain, which has filled the excavation pit with water, necessitating electric pumps to empty it. The foundations when built will go down 22 feet below the surface, which is an unusual depth for a building of this type. This is due to the fact that the basement will contain two floors of book-stacks...
...something about prices. Cocoa was so low on world markets that working on the farm didn't seem worth their while. In a few months much West African cocoa land was jungle again, and the price of cocoa went up. In 1936 there was slightly less rain than usual in the rainy season-what, for Equatorial Africa, amounted to a drought. Cocoa went up again. The natives, reflecting on the simplicity of economics, easily perceived that the less cocoa went to market, the higher went its price. For one wild day last year the spot price...