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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final score in the Harvard-Yale tennis match, which rain on Saturday cut off at the tied score of 4-4, will not be determined until June 25, when Ingraham and Whitbeck will again meet Jones and Watson in Philadelphia at the Intercollegiates in a special match especially for the purpose of breaking the draw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD-YALE TENNIS DRAW WILL BE DECIDED IN JUNE | 5/26/1925 | See Source »

...spring turns into summer, flowers begin to bloom in all the world, and, in China, with the propitious season, war usually commences. A rumor descended upon Peking, last week, like a spring rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chang | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...French poilus died with her name on their lips, fought under her banner, prayed to her on the blood-stained Marne, before the rain of steel at Verdun and in the hour of victory. After the War, soldiers went to her grave at Lisieux, covered it with their medals and swords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: La Petite Fleur | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...blow them out and sit down to Derby breakfast with day broad at the windows; many a pretty gentleman cut cards and drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen, presidential candidates and sharkies, who knew a horse when they saw one, tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...sprinkle of rain fell; thunder stamped in Heaven; the webbing went up. 'They're 'rorf," shouted William Gibbs McAdoo, Marshall Field, Knute Rockne, Harry F. Sinclair, Walter J. Salmon, many Elks, Knights, a haberdasher, a sculptor, 75,000 assorted odd fellows and their ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

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