Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...places ahead of any university courses she might have had?you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment. Not so. For this task of writing, she trains much as an athlete trains for a race. Rain or shine, she walks several miles each day. Several times a week, she swims. She does not do things by halves. When she decided that swimming was an excellent form of exercise for a woman living in the city, she promptly secured a swimming teacher and is learning stroke after...
...teams against Yale that meet in tonight's encounter show that Dartmouth was defeated 3 to 1 by the Elis in a game played when the ice was in a poor condition. In a previous game these teams battled to a scoreless tie in a game halted by rain after two periods of play. The University has split even in two games with the Blue...
...precedents for early rowing on the Charles may be shattered this afternoon if present plans for taking some oarsmen out in the Leviathan materialize. Last Friday, Coach Stevens and Spuhn led a squad of oarsmen in clearing the ice from in front of Newell boathouse, and with the rain last night it is probable that squads will take the river this afternoon under the direction of Coach Brown. The river is clear below Weld boathouse at present, but there is no thought among the coaching staff to launch any shells until later in the spring...
...only our pack horses, and the rain, which was with us all but seven days. This made it very difficult for us as we had to preserve all our specimens and photographic plates from the moisture. At one time we were in a very dangerous position because half of our pack horses gave out under the weight of our specimens, but we managed to struggle on to a little village where the natives saved...
...woebegone as Poor Tom on Lear's heath, was befriended by Quong Lee, Chinese storekeeper, to the day when his first short story was published. Calm faces of Canton and Malaya move through mist down a narrow London street; in bad doorways, sailors' knives flash; the rain beats a tattoo of talons on the windows of the house of Quong Lee; the wind sniffs under the door. Tom, the Hardcress Kid, is safe now, warm, dry, nor does he try to cast over the shiverings of his penury any glamour other than that which properly belongs to peril...