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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should onetime President of France Alexandre Millerand, 69, stand up in a pelting rain storm and deliver an oration about cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pearl among Cheeses | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...stuff and nonsense: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Rosalie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

This gave them an opportunity to look over Cozumel, island off the coast of Yucatan, and to discover, in a cave at Ucul ("hidden water") a shrine to the Mayan rain god, an excellently preserved little building whose stucco, after centuries of exposure, is still white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...rain and snow, only two of the four, tennis tournaments scheduled for the spring trip last week were completed by the University team. The Harvard players' won one of these tournaments defeating the Navy at Annapolis, Saturday, 5 to 1, in a close contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY TENNIS PLAYERS WIN ONE AND DROP ONE MATCH | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...will not be without a secret sense of satisfaction that Seniors condemned to enjoy their vacation in Widener Library or misguided individuals who a week ago sought the cooling solace of the northern mountains will read this morning accounts of tennis matches and baseball games cancelled on account of rain, of lacrosse contests played in mud and drizzle, and of snow welcoming the Crimson cohorts to Virginia. A cool, and even somewhat damp, vacation was enjoyed by all of those north of the Mason-Dixon line, and it is not unpleasant to the less charitable to know that their more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STARTER'S GUN | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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