Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy rain on the muddy Andover track Saturday, the Freshman track team was defeated in its first test of the spring by the score of 67 1-2 to 58 1-2. When the last event, which was the hammer throw, began, the points were even, and the schoolboys piled up their lead by taking all three places in this event. This was the fourth straight defeat administered by Andover to Freshman track teams, and the showing made Saturday by the first-year men is the best which has been made in any of these four meetings...
...naval base in the Caribbean. Now the question is: What shall we do with them? St. Thomas has a good port for a naval station but will not be used by the Navy because Guantanamo Bay is superior. St. Croix is suitable for agriculture, but has had almost no rain for three years; so its sugarcane industry is practically ruined. The drought, which has also affected most of the Greater Antilles, is so great that there is not even enough water on the islands for cattle, and the cattle industry is vanishing. Prohibition spoiled the remaining occupations of the Virgins...
...King " of the Mayas ; a sacred well, 150 feet across and 70 feet deep, used by the Maya religious cults. In the mud at the bottom of this well have been found human skeletons - the most beautiful maidens were hurled to death here at annual festivals to propitiate the rain gods - and extraordinary relics of jade, mosaics, pottery, weapons, balls of copal- offerings brought to this Mecca by pilgrims from all over the Mayan world...
...RAIN-A heavy tropical rain revives primal impulses in a missionary visiting the South Seas, and Jeanne Eagels triumphs as the gorgeous local guttersnipe who proves too much...
...year-and 160,473,600 letters were carried at a total cost of $4,295,967 or about two and a half cents a letter. The Post Office pilots fly in all weathers and nearly one third of the total number of 23,077 trips were made in rain, snow, hail or fog. The number of forced landings is always diminishing and the percentage of trips completed during 1922 was 95.22, while the schedule maintained during the summer months was 100% perfect...