Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until last January, there had been no rain at the little cable port of Santa Elena since 1919. Marshes about the village had long been withered dry. Cattle, unfoddered for months, were shambling bags of bones, the sheep and goats desperately gnawed bales of paper ticker-tape thrown out by the telegraph company...
...same for miles around: no rain here for 10 years, here for 34 years, here since Pizarro, here ever. The left shoulder of the South American continent is accustomed to wearing a heavy, blistering coat of sunburn. From lower Ecuador, through the length of Peru to mid-Chile, it is known as the "Dry Coast...
...cause of such Saharan aridity is the chilly Humboldt Current, flowing up from the South Pacific. The Humboldt gives off moisture, of course, but onshore winds from it, striking the warm land, rise and expand, dropping none of their burden as rain...
Professor McAdie also upheld the statement which has been quoted by Mr. Smythe as having done "untold harm" to Franklin's character. "The story as it a commonly conceived," he said, "is on the face of it extremely fanciful. The picture of the old man standing out in the rain and wind with a small silk kite, which has been one of the favorite subjects of patriotic artists, is not at all accurate. If such an experiment were really handled in that fashion the experimenter would, in all probability be promptly killed...
...Boosters have shown lots of sand in convincing the world that business is a profession. Now they announce that their monument to this conviction is to be set up on piles. It all sounds like the parable of the man who built his house upon false foundations, and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and behold! the house--where...