Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driving rain, and against a head-on wind, Coach Stevens sent his first crew over the regular course yesterday afternoon against the Second University eight and Coach Newell's first two 150 crews...
...Pennsylvania crews arrived at Newell boathouse about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and as soon as their shells were rigged, left for the Basin. Being accustomed to the placid waters of the Schulykill, they had an excellent chance to become acclimated to conditions on the Charles yesterday, for heavy rain and a wind-swept basin greeted the Red and 'Blue oarsmen. The workout of the Penn crews was comparatively short, consisting merely of rowing the course...
...Joseph Auslander?Harper ($2.00). Lyric poems, intense, fragmentary, abruptly lovely; their chiseled imagery entirely unhackneyed and often breathtakingly beautiful. One hears the "bronze murmur of bees," feels a ship at night "lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars," knows the "shattered silver" and "crushed gray light" of rain, and the devastating beauty of women long dead?Yseult, Marie Antoinette, Guinevere...
Famed among many famed young men at the Drake Relays, Iowa, was Charlie Paddock of Pasadena . In a downpour of rain, racing against three University of Iowa freshmen, he ran 100 yards in 93/5 seconds, unofficially equalling the world's record. True, he beat the gun by a fraction...
...That seemed to make religion important and added interest to the hymns. When you sang 'Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known,' you were sufficiently interested at least to walk through the mud and rain, if not sufficiently brave to go into the den with the lions...