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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News wrote: "The war is a washout-figuratively and actually." Rain had reduced the Cambrai plain to a snipe bog, and "no gun has yet been fired in anger." Wire enclosures were built to hold German prisoners, but stood empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bearskins at Home | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Angly was further charmed when he discovered that the "Captain Cambridge" who, in a driving rain across muddy fields, showed him through a British blockhouse and then was left on duty there while his Colonel took the newsmen to cosy tea, was Queen Mary's nephew, Lord Frederick Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bearskins at Home | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Duffey of the Post: "I'd go the limit on Dartmouth. But rain might militate against the Big Green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Predictions by Local Sports Experts | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...Morse of the Christian Science Monitor: "Dartmouth rain or shine. They're more experienced and further advanced at the present time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Predictions by Local Sports Experts | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Despite a last quarter spurt by a spirited Indian squad, Coach Henry Lamar's Jayvee eleven finally emerged on the long end of a 19 to 13 count in a game played yesterday afternoon on rain-soaked Soldiers Field...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: CRIMSON JAYVEES WIN CLOSE CONTEST, 19-13 | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

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