Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negative, upon the electrical conditions of the earth's atmosphere, are known to play an important part in determining weather and seasonal changes. The Weather Bureau is making a thorough investigation of sun-spot phenomena with a view to predicting the general characteristics of whole seasons. The precipitation of rain, the recurrence of storms, and electrical disturbances in the earth's atmosphere, depend to a large degree upon the upper atmosphere, and this in turn is directly responsive to solar convulsions...
...final match of the Class B tennis singles tournament, which was to have been played off Wednesday afternoon between V. O. Watts '24 and A. B. Rice Jr. IG., had to be called off then on account of darkness and yesterday on account of rain. It will be played over again this afternoon, according to Coach Harry Cowles...
When the last rays of the setting sun peep out from behind a rain soaked cloud this afternoon to strike over the colonnade of the giant Allston horseshoe, practically no one will be struck. The game will not be held in the Stadium. The time is also uncertain...
...silver is refined by the cyanide process," he continued, "and is packed out about 78 miles by mule-back in the form of bricks. That trail is no little promenade even in the daytime; but we found ourselves on it one evening in the pitch dark and rain with five miles of the hardest stretch before us. It is no fund picking your way along with a roaring torrent about 1000 feet directly below...
...methods whereby an iceberg is slowly disintegrated and destroyed by nature are varied. The pounding of the heavy seas, rain, and the warm Gulf Stream which meets the Labrador cur- rent on the Banks, all contribute to the gradual erosion of the huge ice mountains. Warm heavy fogs rising from the mixture of warm and cold water are a big factor in the slow decay of the bergs...