Word: rains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat of British engineering in this decade-Queensway, longest and largest underwater tunnel in the world...
...Paulo, who voted for their own coffee candidate, Borges de Medeiros, and withdrew. Three days later Dr. Vargas rushed through his inauguration in five minutes. Only members of the diplomatic corps, Brazilian officials and their families were invited, but thousands swarmed outside Tiradentes Palace in the rain while President Vargas stood before the rostrum and gave his oath to uphold his new constitution for the next four years. Most novel provision of this 44-page opus compels each Minister of the Brazilian Government to provide himself with a "brain trust" of technical experts. On this point the new constitution reads...
That hope seemed brighter when Crawford lost the first set of his singles match to Wood, 6-3, after rain had driven them off the court in mid-set. Crawford was leading 7-6 in the second set when rain again forced them to shelter. Back on the court again, Wood slammed home three games in succession to win 9-7. Playing brilliant tennis, the slim, grinning 22-year-old U. S. contender was swinging into his serve in the third set when a new downpour postponed the match until the next...
...stay close behind a rival he fears, scare him into running fast, cut him down in the last 200 yards. But, says Lovelock, "I always run as slowly as I can." Last week, on the rough clay track, cut up by a touring rodeo and softened by rain, these two great milers let their second string men&151;Leach of Oxford, Vipond of Cornell&151;set the pace for the first two laps. Then Lovelock took the lead with Bonthron close behind. Knowing Bonthron wanted him to set a fast pace, Lovelock set a slow one. When. 130 yards from...
...supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. Last week, in The Physical Review, they brought out further details. They are inclined to believe supernovae explode so violently that they cease to exist as ordinary stars. On the surface protons and electrons coalesce into neutrons; the neutrons "rain" down toward the centre of gravity and, having no repellent electrical charges, pack close together. End product is a "neutron star"?a small, dead, enormously dense lump of matter...