Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia, this skipper's redemption is made cinema-credible by a bleak, briny coast, driving rain, starvation and the steadfastness of a childhood sweetheart...
...used will be essentially the same as that which triumphed ever Middlebury last week with a score of 17 to 47. With weather conditions somewhat improved, it is expected that better records will be possible. E. C. Haggerty '27, who did the five miles in last week's rain and mud in 30 minutes 10 seconds, came in first against Middlebury, and is expected to show good form this afternoon. R. G. Luttman '28, who led Haggerty up to 25 yards from the finish line and placed second, is not in this afternoon's line...
...finals the greenskeeper, committeemen, stewards and various other people who pretended to be, and indeed may have been, officials of the St. Louis Country Club, stuck their heads out of doors and shook them emphatically. For the third day rain was falling. Ducks and drakes was the only game you could play on that course. Next day, though cloudy, was better. The sun and the gallery came doubtfully out. At the end of the morning round Miss Collett was four up. She played the first ten holes in the afternoon in even fours. On the tenth green, when that last...
...away. He had put up a large silver trophy for the winner of this "Reliability Test." Planes were judged on the consistency of their performances. They buzzed steadily ahead, not trying for speed but just to see which could stick at it best. At Indianapolis they were met by rain, at Chicago by a cheering crowd. In Omaha Pilot "Casey" Jones wriggled between two other contestants to make a landing-on top of a motorcycle; cycle and plane were wrecked. Mechanics worked through the night, sent him on his way again. Fifteen of the 16 landed safe at Dearborn again...
...there is the first relay field of the transcontinental air mail) began to look for him. Charles H. Ames was a veteran pilot, he was seldom late. An hour passed and the officials became a little anxious for the schedule of the mail. Clouds were lowering. Periodically there was rain. The telephone rang in a little hut at the emergency landing field at Hartleton, a few miles away. The watchman answered. "Has Ames landed there?" "No, he passed over about...