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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because he was a weather prophet-a onetime girl of the dance halls, and the old toothpick chewer who owns the dance hall. The toothpick chewer loses the girl to the jockey. Pounded in to stir the nerves are an epidemic, a fire and, naturally, a heavy flood of rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...case of rain Commencement Day, the degrees will be conferred in Sanders Theatre, and different tickets will be required, as "Quadrangle tickets" do not admit to the Theatre. Because of the small size of Sanders Theatre, the number of those who may attend the presentation of degrees will be very much reduced. Only alumni of at least 25 years' standing may join the procession, while younger graduates and non-graduating students will not be admitted. The Sanders Theatre tickets will be distributed to those eligible to receive them at the same time that the tickets of admission to Sever Quadrangle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARREN ANNOUNCES RULES FOR COMMENCEMENT DAY | 5/26/1926 | See Source »

...spread will be given in the rear of Hollis Hall this year instead of the customary place near Holworthy Hall. In case of rain arrangements have been made to shift the spread to the Phillips Brooks House which is in a convenient position for the move. The hours of the spread are from 5.30 to 7.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANS FOR CLASS DAY SPREAD AT BROOKS HOUSE ANNOUNCED | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

...advertising is not sufficient to cover the cost of publication, and the deficits incurred in one or two of the departments, enough subscriptions have already been secured to insure the book's being a financial success without counting on what copies may be sold later. Last year the rain at the Jubilee cut down the sale of copies so much that the book showed a deficit of several hundred dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LARGEST RED BOOK EVER PUBLISHED OUT THURSDAY | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...receipts amounting to almost $2,560 are expected to cover the expenses which have been increased this year by the ruin of the lanterns in the rain at last year's Jubilee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREPARATIONS PRESAGE SUCCESSFUL JUBILEE | 5/21/1926 | See Source »

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