Word: rains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smashing in eight runs in the wild second inning, the rejuvenated Varsity nine buried a sloppy Northeastern team 12 to 3 yesterday afternoon in a seven inning battle cut short by rain on Soldiers Field...
...practically standing still now. The ropes have been dropped and they have been taken hold of by a number of men on the field. It is starting to rain again. The rain had slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are holding it just enough to keep...
...most vivid memories of Robert House Colley is that of ripping off rapid-fire calculations for Battery A of the 307th Field Artillery during the battle of St. Mihiel, standing behind some ruins with rain pouring down on his maps and tissue paper tracers while a private tried ineffectually to hold a pup tent over his head. Second Lieutenant Colley retained his passion for mathematics, returned from the War to put it at the service of finance in the treasurer's office of Philadelphia's Atlantic Refining Co. Last week, on the retirement of William Mitchell Irish...
...Egyptian art), whose women are handily identified by little bumps on their chests and whose animals, the quagga and antelope, are far more accurately observed and gracefully drawn than the people. There are also mystic lozenges, snaky lines and blobs which apparently are respectively symbols for mountain, rain and root. For briskness of conception, facility of line, the Mtoko paintings struck critics as being plastics of considerable honest merit in themselves. A small show of advanced abstractionists like Klee, Miro, Arp and Masson was added to the exhibit by Director Barr to show that some living painters are not very...
There is still plenty to be learned about all these forces, but that did not prevent Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard from announcing last week that they had discovered a brand-new cosmic particle which the heavens rain upon the earth. It has a negative electrical charge like an electron, but seems to weigh ten times as much and have a thousand times as much energy, easily passing through four Geiger counters, two cloud chambers and seven inches of lead...