Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rain substituted for skill on Saturday afternoon at New Haven, when the University and Yale tennis teams were forced to suspend play with the score tied at four matches apiece and the deciding match tied at one set apiece...
...University team, having completed their own matches, left the final score still in the air at 4 to 4. They immediately proceeded to win their first set at 11-9. The second was dropped to the Jones-Watson combination at 4 to 6, when a sudden downpour of rain soaked the courts and ended all thought of further play...
...announced last night that the dance will be held whether rain prevents the baseball game or not. Tickets will be charged it bought before noon today...
Behind the fliers went one Charles Bull, onetime Harvard athlete, to establish gasoline bases for them. Bull traveled in a canoe alone with his native crew for 700 miles, stripped stark as they to the tropical sun and rain...
...plaintive sound of the grind-organ and the hurdy-gurdy suggest the flavor of the times through popular airs. As in "The Adding Machine", the singing of "My country 'tis of thee" marks the culmination of an outburst of intolerance. The phonograph which played a poignant role in "Rain" and in "The Square Peg" and was doubled to two phonographs in Jean Cocteau's fantastic "Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel", is here multiplied into no less than four phonographs all playing different tunes full blast...