Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soldiers Field was bleak and sodden yesterday, as rain filled the pockmarks on the practice fields. But despite the weather, Coach Lloyd Jordan and the varsity football team continued to concentrate only on preparing for the Cornell game Saturday...
Colonel Mattingly and Hagerty arrived from Washington in a driving rain, and shortly thereafter Hagerty read a bulletin stating that the President had withstood the heart attack well...
...something delayed Ione. Although the radio and newspapers continued their frenzied warnings, all through that threatened day hardly a breeze was stirring north of Maryland. At Hatteras, N.C., the Weather Bureau's radar (which shows rain-filled air) watched lone approaching with measured tread. She had a clear little eye in her center (the signature of a hurricane), and around it were elaborate swirls like a spiral nebula (see cuts'}. But lone lingered; her eye grew dim; her spirals dissolved in a structureless blob of rain...
Then she streaked off over the Atlantic as if she had seen a ghost. The apprehensive Northeast states got only drops of local rain and fitful puffs of wind...
Five of Harvard's football opponents sloshed through mud and rain on Saturday to opening victories. Only Dartmouth, without the services of injured captain Leo McKenna, and Brown, minus Tom "TD" Thompson, who reported late for practice, lost their games, and these by a total of three points. The University of Massachusetts will play its postponed game against American International this afternoon...