Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather forecast for today holds forth the dismal prospect of rain to the 80.000 people who will throng the Bowl at New Haven this afternoon...
...complete list of items received is as follows: 15 suits, 26 overcoats 24 coats and vests, 92 pairs of trousers, seven rain coats, 82 hats and capes, 100 pairs of shoes, 25 pairs of overshoes and rubbers, 200 shirts, 225 articles of underwear, 325 collars, 300 ties, 45 pairs of socks, seven bathrobes and four sweaters...
...Rain, rain, go away! The Little World's Champions and the Pacific Coast Champions want to play." But the rain was implacable. St. Paul and Seattle got through only nine innings of a proposed nine-game series to determine the Class AA championship, for which St. Paul became eligible when it beat Baltimore (TIME, Oct. 20). In the nine innings played, St. Paul fell upon Seattle 12 to 4. Then the rain fell, the series was canceled...
...closing Professor Chaffee said that, although it might be possible to cause rain to fall by the use of the electrified sand, no real proof of this had as yet been obtained. He said it might be possible to produce rain in regions where large moisture clouds were present at fairly low altitudes, but that it would be absolutely impossible to produce rain under any other condition
...undergraduate, Percy Haughton was a tackle on Ben Dibblee's famous team which beat Yale 17 to 0 at New Haven in a rain almost as violent as that of last year. Before this he was a fullback. In baseball he was a first baseman, a second baseman, a center fielder, and a pitcher and was Captain of the team in 1899. He had natural gifts for outdoor sport of all kinds...