Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RAIN-A highly sexed and angry torrent against South Sea missionaries. Jeanne Eagels guides the flood with notable distinction...
...Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt remains of plane and pilot after several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones (instrument engineer of the experimental station at McCook Field) flew from Dayton (Ohio) to Mitchel Field, Mineola, L. I., far above the dangerous clouds, flying 'by dead reckoning...
Measurements of the speed of the wind raging yesterday revealed a velocity of 84 miles an hour. Accompanying this came first a slight rain, then 4 inches of snow. The Blue hill Observatory, that made these observations, announced that they were not alarming but that a wind of such a high speed is very unusual in Cambridge. the weather bureau promised a cessation of the violence of the storm before midnight last night and fair weather today...
...RAIN-People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...
...heaviest twenty-four-hour rain in the United States occurred in Taylor, Texas where there fell in one day a total of twenty-four inches which is a little less than Cambridge gets in one year...