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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Injuries have continued to mount to proportions far beyond normal, not only hindering the varsity in games, but making it difficult for the first team to practice as a unit. One contributing factor has been the lack of rain, which has made the Business School field unusually hard and virtually without grass...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Injuries Leave Crimson Soccer Lineup in Doubt | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

...more Nazi soldiers were killed than there were men in the entire Norwegian army. Aboard a British cruiser, Haakon escaped at last to England, where his voice, broadcast by the BBC, carried on a clarion call for resistance to those he left behind. Thousands turned out in a driving rain to greet him when he returned home in 1945, and the re-enthroned King, sensing his people's wishes, began his new reign by rejecting all pleas for clemency for the traitor Quisling, who was tried and promptly executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: H7 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 30, 1957 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Carolina farmers complained that their corn had a mysterious disease. It looked as if it were dying of drought, but when rain fell, the corn did not recover. The disease spread, and last year sample plants were sent to North Carolina State College, where plant pathologists could find no bacterium, virus, fungus or other malefactor to account for the trouble. Then a graduate student from India took a careful look at the sick corn and recognized among its roots the underground stems of witchweed, which had never before invaded the Western Hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Red Flower | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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