Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen were the only players among the class football men to get into action yesterday. Coach E. D. Hamilton '23 had his dormitory squad working out in spite of the rain...
...desperate combat for the city of London the army of Wessex last week locked in a death grapple with the army of Mercia. Rain fell and fell until even Noah's contemporaries would have been convinced that there was going to be a flood. And finally after everyone had been soaked to the bone, the umpires decided that the sham battle had saved London for Mercia...
This rural couple had a daughter who went wrong with a suave youth from the city. At the time of this fall from virtue there had been no fall of rain for many weeks. The climax came when the old couple learned of their daughter's dereliction. At about the same moment there came the patter of raindrops on the roof. The dusty years through which rain for the crops had come to be their cardinal concern had their effect. They cheered for the rain and forgot the family honor...
...reluctant summer made the weather uncomfortable for Notre Dame's new machine. Rain oiled its cogs, greased its poles. Inevitably, the team that went into action lacked the rhythm of Knute Rockne's 1924 champions, but few predictions of what it may become in the next few weeks could be based on its effortless, slipshod, 41-0 victory over Baylor University of Waco...
Down the steep gully of Park Ave., Manhattan, rang a flight of bells. It was a cheery Sunday midday. Sunlight drenched the apartment houses, and winked from windows as from a thousand little rain-pools; but the burghers of Park Ave. shivered in their sleep...