Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late-scheduled but official tennis match with Amherst was cancelled yesterday because of rain. The match, which was to have been on the Soldiers Field courts, will not be played in the future. Another schedule change has moved the varsity and freshman engagement with Dartmouth up from Saturday to Friday. This will be a home match...
Defending champion Frank Stranahan and Sam Urzetta led the American Walker Cup team into the third round of the British Amateur golf tournament at Porthcawl, Wales, amid wind and rain...
Other games postponed because of rain...
...record set by Nanking the day before with 376 executions, but there was reason to believe that Shanghai with its larger population would win the contest in the long run. Hangchow (pop. 500.000) only executed 50, but it reported proudly that more than 110,000 people had "waded through rain-soaked streets" to witness the occasion. In two days, 719 Chinese had been executed, an average of one every four minutes...
With the Southwest facing one of the worst droughts in its history, the hunt was on for new ways to get around the perennial shortage of rain. Last week in El Paso, young (30) Dr. Peter Duisberg, agricultural chemist from New Mexico A. & M., reported to the Southwestern Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that desert research might well be "opening up a new agricultural frontier." He was ready to name scores of plants that need almost no water and might be converted into products varying all the way from varnish to broomstraws...