Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moab. Immediately the street began to fill with prairie-schooners, and stern-faced men whose eyes were full of the loneliness of the plains. Each man had a square gray beard, and an old musket under an arm which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon-drivers practiced frantically with their twenty-foot whips to the detriment of the shop windows and passing pedestrians. The town took on a sombre aspect. No one knew what the future held for this quiet, determined band of men who left the town of Moab to fight the Indian...
...recent review, who shows that history, for instance, is a combination of biology, meteorology, geography, and economics. Military successes and failures in Europe have depended not so much on men as upon "the physical geography of Belgium and Eastern France." Napoleon was thwarted at Moscow by a rain storm, and while wars three centuries ago might have been waged over the wink of a courtesan's eye, "international rivalries today grow from a ceaseless struggle for natural resources". Students in the musical departments do not always remember that pleasing harmonies are based on mathematical calculations and that a change...
...near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little haystacks under the light of early morning. Another day, he would paint the same stacks, through the heat-shimmer of high Normandy noon. Then he mould paint them at dusk, or half-hidden with rain, coated with snow, or red with the sunset. The musical expression, " Air, with variations," is true in many senses of Monet's greatest work. The famous series are exquisite color harmonies, -blurred if the observer stands too close, vivid and truthful if he steps back,-but not so much...
RAIN?A devastating attack on the missionary who uses the Bible as a club to drive lost sheep into the fold. The play is distinguished by Jeanne Eagels' acting and by real rain falling dismally throughout...
Slow rowing was once more the order of the day for the two University crews at their new quarters on Boston Harbor yesterday afternoon. The water was calm and in spite of the rain, each crew covered approximately three miles during the course of the practice...