Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of rain, Commencement exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre, where special tickets will be required for admission because of limited capacity. A small number of other participants may hear the proceedings piped to Allston Burr Lecture Hall and New Lecture Hall...
...event of rain, the Class Day exercises will be held in New Lecture Hall...
...Arlington speech, the Army's Brucker reasserted the Army's right (bitterly disputed by the Air Force) to the long-range ballistics missile, goaded the Air Force by claiming that the Army's weapons are superior because they "are not limited in their effectiveness by fog, rain, snow or any other adverse condition." ¶ In Akron, Assistant Navy Secretary James H. Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy a far more important strategic-bombing...
...bumper crop of golden grain waved last week along Algeria's coastal plain. Rain had been plentiful, there had been hardly a breath of the hot, dry, dreaded sirocco, and the harvest promised to be the best in history. But in many fields the crops-wheat, oats, barley-drooped overripe and unharvested, and in some the grain, and the farm buildings too, were burning in the lazy heat...
...explained later) "that God give him the best place in Heaven." Acting every bit the vote getter he is, he flew, north to cry, "New York, here I come!", on his arrival at La Guardia Airport. Soon caught up in a big civic welcome, he was caressed with rain and ticker tape as he was paraded up Broadway; at a Waldorf-Astoria reception he hammily bussed the hand of an old friend, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. At a TV session, he was asked if he kisses babies when he goes politicking. His reply: "I like children, I like babies...