Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, incidentally, was opening day, though one couldn't tell it. No crowds or bands were on hand as the teams played for three hours in weather that was at first chilly and then downright cold. The crowd was sparse, perhaps 60 or so, but the team at least was enthusiastic and hustled all the way, and can look forward hopefully to Saturday's encounter with Boston University here. Dom Repetto will probably pitch...
This is a veteran team by all standards, but it has not come as far as it might have by this time. The Southern trip was spoiled by weather that was more suitable for Cambridge, and the team needs work...
Even as they totaled their losses, many of the weather-beaten farmers in the dry country could take a philosophical, hopeful view. With fresh moisture in the soil of the Southwest, said weathermen, local evaporation may keep alive the kind of storm clouds that have been drying out as they moved across the parched land. Said H. L. Jacobson, chief meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau at Kansas City: "That makes for a more favorable rain situation. In that respect spring is starting off beautifully." At week's end rains washed down into the area...
Discouraging weather and discouraging scores greeted the baseball team last week in the South. The nine's six-game slate was cut in half by inclement weather, and the team lost each of those games...
...Manhattan taxi driver recently mistook Norman Vincent Peale for a physician. After grumping about the weather and shrugging off the Rev. Dr. Peak's cheery rejoinders ("Good old rain"), the cabby turned to state his symptoms: "Say doc, I've got some pains in my back. I feel terrible." As Author Peale tells it. he replied: "Although I'm not accustomed to practicing in taxicabs, I think you have psycho-sclerosis...