Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just as a good doctor is one who keeps his patient healthy publicity seeks to create, good public impressions of business as we go along. This cannot be done by distorting facts, or keeping the truth hidden, for publicity must not be used as an umbrella to keep off rain. The frank statement of true facts is the means employed in a constructive campaign, and the publicity campaign, and the public has always proved receptive to honest expressions of fact...
Track manager A. C. Bickford '24 will be taking a one-to-eight chance that it will not rain on May 30 and 31, when he concludes a $7500 rain insurance policy with the Home insurance Company today on a premium of slightly less than...
...Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., was somewhat skeptical as to the advantages of rain insurance as a general rule. The last time that the H. A. took out such insurance for any of the University football games was in the season of 1921, when the six main games on the schedule were insured for $5000 each on a policy which guaranteed payment in the event of the downfall of one-twentieth of an inch of rain between the hours of 1 and 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the game...
...each of these games, the H. A. A. lost its bet with the insurance company. The only time that there seemed any chance of collecting was on the day of the Indiana game, October 8, 1921. The clouds had been threatening all day, but the rain held off until exactly five minutes after 4 o'clock, when it came down in a sudden deluge at the rate of about one-twentieth of an inch a minute. The insurance company, however, stuck to the letter of the policy and withheld...
After having been twice postponed by rain, eight events of the spring Freshman interdormitory track meet were run off on the Freshman track yesterday afternoon resulting in a 30 point victory for Smith, while Standish beat Gore out of second place by a 22-20 margin...