Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain, filling out endless bureaucratic forms is accepted as inevitably as a bad cold, a bus queue or a summer holiday ruined by rain. But every so often the worm turns, and victims everywhere enjoy a victory against the common bureaucrat. Recently Builder Eric Neate. constructing a small factory at Andover in Hampshire, routinely sent a blueprint of the factory to the County Planning Committee. Complying with committee orders that all factories must have flower beds. Neate's architect indicated a space for "shrubs." Back to Neate came the plan with a question: What kind of plants did Neate...
Nina Rolnick '59, chairman of Grant-In-Aid, announced that the annual auction has been postponed to Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2-6 p.m. in the Radcliffe Quad. In case of rain, it will be held the following Thursday...
...magazine to look good. James Wright, in "The Thieves," has filled four stanzas with round and rolling sounds, which, appeaing as they sometimes are when taken one or two phrases at a time, present confusion together. However, two poems by Stephen Sandy come to rescue readers from the rain of apples in Wright's poem. Both are very tightly written, exotic pieces: "Moulay Ismail and King Louis' Daughter," and "Near Marrakech." The second of these is particularly ingenious and vivid...
...since it "lost" the hurricane of 1938, which hit New England almost without warning, the Weather Bureau has sought a really dependable way of tracking hurricanes. Watching their movements from high-flying airplanes is costly, intermittent and dangerous. Radars help a lot, but what they show is belts of rain, which may be far from the center of the storm...
Most clouds and fogs are made of water droplets that are too small to fall. Nature has various methods of making the droplets grow big enough to fall as rain, but they are not always in operation. Often great clouds heavy with water float across a thirsty land without dropping rain, or fog hangs for hours over an airport...