Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both teams were hampered by the rain, for opposing coaches Bob Blackman of Dartmouth and Alva Kelley of Brown are stressing aerial games this year. The ball was as elusive for the backs as the cocktail shakers and beer cans seemed adhesive to the grasps of the gala throng. The backwoodsmen were in town again...
This was a satisfying and well-earned win for Bruce Munro's eleven in its home and Ivy League opener. Playing with a forward line weakened by injuries and illness, the team had to come from behind to win in the rain and mud against a Cornell squad that pressed the attack doggedly even when two goals behind...
Bicycle Lake, near Barstow on California's Mojave Desert, is no place for canoes or water skiing. It is a shallow depression normally filled with 5,000 sq. yds. of dry, cracked mud. Once in a great while rain covers its surface with an inch or so of water, which evaporates in days. The rest of the time the "lake" is as dry as a stove...
...flanked by brass instruments and brass-throated singers, Billy Sunday's sack suit, white waistcoat, wing collar and spats were put through some of the strangest performances ever enacted in the name of religion. The show awed even the reporters, who sat below the stage in a fine rain of perspiration from the evangelist's flailing arms and contorted brow...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...