Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game proved it was worth it all. The crowd was dwarfed, perhaps, by the size of the Stadium, yet it was spirited. The teams themselves played hard, interesting football. If the game had been played on the Saturday when originally scheduled, the audience probably would have been larger, but rain made that impossible. The H.A.A.'s enthusiasm in both scheduling and rescheduling the contest proves that reducing the H.A.A. deficit will not be done at the expense of House athletics...
...trumpeted through its one-night stand, nine-year-old Maria Campa, granddaughter of one of the circus owners, was clawed and chewed to death by a young lion considered so tame he was tied to a stake outside his cage. Next day, as the Campa circus trundled along the rain-slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic...
...time passed, however, New York City stopped spending money to end the drought and instead used municipal funds to show that the experiment was a failure. It appeared that rain had fallen abundantly in the wrong places. At present, 169 claims have been filed against the city by Catskill communities and citizens. Other communities complained that Howell's experiments had cause $2,138,510 storm damages in their areas...
...game was played in the driving rain which turned to sleet in the second half and snow as the game ended. The field, which was originally well-kept short-cropped grass with no dirt spots, had absorbed a heavy downpour for nearly 24 hours and was a best spongy. Dispersed liberally about were ankle-deep icy pools or mud slicks, especially at midfield and in the penalty areas...
...events at Soldiers Field were called off Saturday because of the rain, save for the rugby game with McGill...