Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insurance clerk sat in an office in Cornhill, England, arranging typewritten papers in neat dockets and whistling cheerily as if to show his indifference to the rain that beat a tattoo on his roof -like drumming hoofs, he thought. King George of England sat staring politely into the same rain from a box at a race track. In a leather chair in Berkeley Square, London, Lord Woolavington (once Sir James Buchanan) regarded the lengthening silver ash of his cigar, and though separated from each other by space and, apparently by opposing interests, the fortunes of these three gentlemen were interwoven...
...were concerned in the running of that race. How many others no one knew. Probably every fifth person in the British Empire had money up, or said he had. All day, in costers' wagons and lorries and trains they had poured into Epsom Downs; they stood in the rain, an immense rubber-coated army, silently disliking each other. "All umbrellas down," said a voice. Up and down the ranked lines, a mile and a half long, of that steaming host, black bubbles of silk obediently collapsed; bookmakers put away their last tickets; touts and tipsters, who had offered...
...weeks ago Brown lost to Harvard at Providence in a game that was made almost impossible by a steady down-pour of rain. Today's weather should be more favorable when the two nines clash on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock, and if Danzell who is slated to hurl for the invaders is in form, the game should be a tight pitchers' battle, with the Crimson, due to its previous win and the fast speed at which, it is now travelling, slightly the favorite...
...Rain trickled and streamed down the banked brick turns of the great Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twenty-eight tiny speedcars, all "specials," set out to cover 500 miles at over a mile and a half a minute, to race for the international motor sweepstakes. Hearst-Editor Brisbane acted as chief referee-a post held in past years at Indianapolis by Henry Ford, Charles M. Schwab. . . . After something more than three and a half hours of breathtaking skids and recoveries, the judges decided to flag down the first car passing the 400-mile mark as the winner-declined to let the race...
...Massachusetts High School Athletic Association will hold its sixth annual track meet starting at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Stadium. The meet will be conducted by the Harvard Athletic Association and according to the management the events will be run off promptly, rain or shine. General admission to the meet will be 50 cents, and there will be no reserve seats on sale...