Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showers have regularly come about November 14 each year, with large displays at 33-year intervals. Intense storms were seen in 1799 and 1833, and one observer in 1866 said that the shower was "as thick as a Christmas snowstorm." But in 1899 the display was much diminished, and astronomers have been watching during the last 2 years to see whether the earlier intensity will recur...
Over the bow of the S. S. Majestic, one day out of Southampton, broke a wave so huge that it shattered four windows on the bridge, stunned Captain Edward L. Trant, commodore of the White Star fleet, with a shower of heavy, leaded glass. When the Majestic docked in Manhattan Captain Trant, suffering from an infected scalp, was rushed ashore to a hospital. In a Mineola, L. I., court, to petition that her name be fixed once & for all, appeared Princess Xenia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George Michaelovitch of Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds...
...prehistoric fall that dug Meteor Crater 4,000 ft. wide in Arizona, killed anyone or not. But several close shaves are well known to connoisseurs of meteoritics. In 1827 a man was injured by a fall at Mhow, India. In 1836 cattle were reported killed by a meteoric shower in Brazil. In 1847 two iron meteorites totaling 85 Ib. plunged through the roof of a room in Braunau, Bohemia where three children were sleeping. In 1917 a 150-lb. stone fell within the town limits of Colby, Wis. In 1924 a 14- Ib. stone hit a Colorado highway...
...airport, ambulances and fire engines were waiting. Police, firemen, physicians stood by. Thrill-seekers by the thousand held their breath. Down into the glare of the floodlights swooped the ship, hit the earth with a thud, skidded 700 ft. on her belly in a shower of dust and sparks, ground to a stop amid cheers and applause. Damaged propellers would cost Northwest Airlines $50 to repair, but unbroken was the company's proud record of eight years without a single passenger fatality...
...huge Czechoslovakian and a slight South African were the foreigners the galleries watched most at Forest Hills. Annoyed at being made to play his second-round match in an intermittent shower, Roderick Menzel amused himself by uttering Czechoslovakian epithets, tottering about at snail's pace between points. He was put out in the fourth round. Vernon Gordon Kirby, whose father fought in the Boer War, first gained world recognition when he defeated Baron von Cramm to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon this year. At Forest Hills last week he put Frank Shields out in the quarterfinals, only...