Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid was its Defense Junta head, bald General Jose Miaja who at first tried to keep his Red Militia from growing over confident at their success northeast of Madrid in driving Italian Rightists back nearly 20 miles (TIME, March 22). The General by last week had toured the ter rain from which the Italians fled, abandoning roughly 2,000,000 rounds of am munition, and his pride in Spanish prow ess was at bursting point. A group of neutral Red Cross doctors and nurses offered General Miaja a likely audience of foreigners, and with gusto he let himself go about...
...Shigefuji became a Rinban of equal rank with Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took place in honor of Buddha's 2,50311! birthday (April 8), with the two Rinbans pouring sweet water on the gold statue in commemoration of the legend that sweet rain fell when Buddha was born. Finally, at Fresno High School athletic field, members of Young Men's Buddhist Associations competed in a Japanese Olympic...
...mass theory holds that great masses of cold air and others of warm air rolling over the earth make weather by their interaction, causing rain, fog, snow. When a "cold front" slides over a "warm front" the air at the boundary is twisted and violent disturbances are likely to occur. The Weather Bureau is by no means the U. S. pioneer in this meteorological technique. In fact the Bureau's critics, of which it always has plenty, have reproached it for not making greater use of the method once its value was demonstrated. The Bureau has a quick retort...
...year. Currently Dr. Krick's best customers are cinema producers, who some time ago discovered that good weather for outdoor "shooting" is one thing that even Hollywood cannot buy. Dr. Krick's uncanny ability to predict, a day or so in advance, the hour when rain will start or stop, when fog will roll in or lift, is reputed to bring him fat fees from cinema coffers...
...Nile's career Ludwig sees a comforting parable for careerist man. For half its 4,000-mile course the river flows through the desert, receiving "neither tributaries nor rain, yet it does not dry up; indeed, close to its end, it creates the most fertile of all lands." Ludwig calls the Nile the world's greatest river, and his 619 pages of testimony bear him out. "Its basin contains the biggest lake of the eastern hemisphere, the highest mountains, the biggest city of its continent." It owns "the richest bird life of the northern hemisphere, nearly every animal...