Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pounds of it from 12,000 ft. on a cloud near the fire. A few minutes later he saw rain falling from the cloud's base. A fairly heavy fall over the fire area lasted for 25 minutes, was followed by a two-hour drizzle. The Dry Ice shower, the Ontario Forest Protection Division reported, "had a dampening effect, but not an extinguishing effect upon the fire...
...Gordonstoun and at Salem, the day Degins with a cold shower and five minutes of Christian "prelude"; it ends with five minutes of silent thought. Says Hahn: No intellectual life [can develop] if :here is no opportunity and no desire to be alone." After lunch, youngsters lie flat on the floor while a master reads. In the afternoon comes the active life. Says Hahn, quoting Swiss Theologian Karl Barth: "The world needs men, and it would be sad if it were just the Christians who did not wish...
Fifty new tennis courts which were launched by the recent April showers have proved a double boon to the Crimson in its fight for a rebound season. They have a hard, fast-drying surface which snubs rain, and storms have only kept the team indoors for the day of the weather onslaught itself. In the past, precious practices had to be cancelled for days after a shower. Also, they have given Barnaby a chance to work up a ten-man squad for the Yale match on good courts. Charlie Ames, Loring Briggs, Hilliard Hughes, Howie Swartzman, and Jack Frey...
...April shower broke one day in Manhattan, falling impartially on thousands, including Henry Edwards Huntington. To keep his white mustachios dry, portly "H.E." ducked into an art gallery. Before he ducked out again, he had been sold a Raeburn portrait. Thus impulsively, in 1908, began one of the world's great collecting careers...
Entering 822, Roberts started in on the only regular exercise he ever takes: the lifting and downing of four large Scotch highballs before dinner. He stripped off his tentlike coat and trousers, took a shower, waddled around in his underwear for a time, got into a clean suit, and sat down to a roast beef dinner. Then he hustled his men back to the office...