Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hail and rain drove guests indoors at Ambassador and Mrs. Kelloggs' re- ception that day at Crewe House. The Archbishop of Canterbury entertained at tea at Lambeth Palace. Mr. Hughes returned to the Middle Temple for dinner...
When a child, lying awake, thinks he sees a horrifying shape in the cor- ner, or hears all night long in the dark and rain a man go riding by, the direct cause of his fear is always slight. Light huddles the darkness in a queer way, or someone has told him a story about highwaymen. It is only the trick of associating a slight concrete thing with a vast intangible one that makes such fear formidable. The fears of children invariably depend on this sort of confused association, Dr. Watson's experiments have shown...
General Hischauer, who commanded the French Air Service during the War and is now reporter of the Military Aviation budget, announced the completion of tests of a "ghost plane" which will fly pilotless 100 miles out of sight and rain death on enemy armies and cities in the next war. A gyroscopic stabilizer re- places the pilot for the maintenance of equilibrium.' Wireless guides the plane at will and makes it land precisely at a given spot, however far away from the point of control. The discharge of powerful bombs will also be controlled by wireless. Similar experiments...
...series of fires, following drought, had sprung up in California, Washington and Idaho. A good rain in the latter two States helped the firefighters materially. Severe fires still continued in several parts of California...
...Indianapolis, two other Australian Davis Cup men, Brian I. C. Norton and Gerald Patterson (team captain) succumbed in turn to John Hennessey, "Indianapolis cyclone." The event was a rain-soaked Western championship, top honors in which the "cyclone" did not quite sweep away from towering Will Tilden, national champion...