Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later executive order, the President also established as a national monument two tracts of land 30 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz. They contain ruins of buildings constructed by the Snake family of the Hopi Indians during prehistoric times. They are to be known as Wupatki (Great Rain Cloud House) National Monument...
...would probably be blown off," declared Major F. W. Moore '92, Graduate Secretary of the H. A. A., when a CRIMSON reporter asked him if the H. A. A. was going to follow Yale's example of roofing the press stand on the Bowl to protect reporters from the rain...
...soaked to the skin, we anticipated trouble in getting out. Our fears were justified, for we had scarcely moved a few hundred feet when we were stuck in the mud--with dozens of cars nearby in the same predicament. We struggled, and cursed,--got out in the mud and rain and secured two helpers to give us assistance. Football terms are the best description, for we rarely gained ten yards in four struggles. After about an hour of that discouraging work, we heard a lot of noise behind, and down the road came a Ford coupe--nothing daunted and with...
...shrieked the damsel. The crowd looked; and although they had all seen it before, they broke into jeering laughter. And so it is year after year; yet these taunts are the outer signs of an inner satisfaction and pride; no Londoner would willingly miss the Lord Mayor's Show, rain or sunshine...
Every indication gives promise that the day will be comfortable as far as temperature goes, so that only moderate precautions will be needed to keep ward. But those who are wise will be prepared for rain, not the drenching downpour that flooded the Stadium last year, out showers of one sort or another