Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elias [Elijah the Tishbite] was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and siv months...
...prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit...
Even so, at the behest of the local Rotary Club, the business men of Denver bowed their heads for two minutes, prayed for rain to help the farmers...
Thus Harvard today has no swimming pool that is worthy of the name. It flounders along in two rain-barrels and a nearby river, while many think that this delinquency is caused by lack of funds or a proper building location. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Athletic Association has adequate finances which it is only too willing to devote to a pool; it has had them for some time. Moreover the plan of constructing a pool on the site of the Hemenway Gymnasium which might have conflicted with a projected chemical laboratory was abandoned in favor...
...hoped that the weather will be fair, but even in case of rain no further postponement will be made, declare the Senior authorities, wroth at the double setback their plans have already received...