Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such. It is highly probable that an ingenius architect might devise some simple expedient whereby a current of air might be induced to enter at the base of the shait and escape through a suitable vent at the top, thus securing an adequate circulation of fresh air without admitting rain and snow. Such feats of engineering nave been accomplished in the past, and might conceivably be duplicated...
Your editorial finds fault with the airshaft, but fails to advance any reason why there should be no airshaft. Obviously an airshaft is a vital necessity, and what in the face of rain and snow, is less strange than that it should be covered? "Drinking fountains in the slop sinks" is a nasty phrase. yet only a phrase, since, after an inspection, it is noted that, like other drinking fountains, these are placed above sanitary basins to receive the superfluous water. "Mention might be made of the toilets, the lighting, and ventilation in general", but you do not make...
...football season. Coach Fisher's gridiron machine ran up a lead of 13 points in the first half, sweeping the Hoosiers off their feet by brilliant defensive and offensive work, especially on the part of the forwards, who recovered fumbles and blocked punts galore. The heavy rain in the last half was conducive to anything but good football and neither team was able to develop an attack worthy of the name...
Despite the pouring rain and the drenched condition of the field, and although this was the first game of the season, the 1925 play was singularly free from fumbles. Only two were chalked up against it during the entire game...
...clock tomorrow afternoon, the celebration will open with a mass meeting on the Cambridge Common. In case of rain, Gordon's Central Square Theatre will be used. A band will render selections, and several prominent men will speak. The list includes Governor Channing H. Cox, Congressman Dallinger, Mayor Edward W. Quinn, Mr. James T. Barrett, President of the City Council, and Rev. Raymond W. Calkins D.D., Pastor of the First Congregational Church...