Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Alfonso and Primo are good friends. The King said that he had saved the country from a civil war by appointing Primo Dictator of Spain. Primo said he was teaching Spain how to govern herself properly. Yet, rumor follows rumor, as one drop of rain follows another, that all is not well in Spain...
Yesterday's storm which in the morning poured tons of snow on the University and in the late afternoon attempted to undo its earlier work by pouring on tons more of rain, produced a number of new records on the books of the statisticians...
...Blue Hill Observatory announced a snowfall of seven inches, which breaks the previous record of the winter by two inches. As the CRIMSON goes to press, the precipitation of rain approaches two inches...
Promptly at 3:30 His Holiness enters his carriage and is driven to the gardens. Here he walks four, five or six miles briskly, rain or shine. A prelate accompanies him, discussing affairs...
...this point the monoeuvres were supposed to begin. They didn't. They were delayed two days by an accident. Costa Rica had been having heavy rain which had prevented proper transmission of its mails. Two U. S. aeroplanes were sent from the Canal Zone to assist Costa Rica. Their duty done, they started home. Diving through the clouds they "stumbled" on the Black Fleet anchored in Chiriqui lagoon off Bocas del Toro. Lieutenant Moon, one of the aviators, circled, counted the ships, and then descending, bombed the aeroplane carrier Langley, making three direct hits with ripe tomatoes. Within an hour...