Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black flies which pester humans farther north. Buffalo gnats breed in swift-flowing streams, attaching their wormlike larvae to the downstream side of a large rock or log. After a month or six weeks the larvae spin cocoons, soon emerge full-grown. The first spell of warm weather sends them swarming to fields and barnyards...
Exciting as these performances were for rich, socialite Mrs. Sloane, hospitalized in Manhattan from a hip injury sustained while bathing at Palm Beach last winter, their importance lay in the fact that they rang down the curtain on the preliminary spring races for 3-year-olds. All weather-vanes on all U. S. racing stables now pointed abruptly toward Louisville, Ky. Thither was shipped in padded motor vans and horse Pullmans every 3-year-old filly, colt and gelding in the land worth its oats. There, at Churchill Downs this week, the nation's 1934 racing season would formally...
Drake. Sunny weather and a fast track helped the Western teams to beat most Eastern teams' times in rainy Philadelphia. In the field events, the Drake Relays produced a downright sensation...
Under almost ideal weather conditions the Tiger Varsity crossed the finish a length and three-quarters ahead of Harvard and three and three-quarters ahead of Tech, nine minutes and 52 seconds after the referee had called the start. The Lake Carnegie course takes longer to cover than that on the Charles, because of the river current...
...present Cornell is leading the league, thanks to a pair of victories taken from Columbia last weekend. When Harvard played that same Lion outfit on April 24, the result was a 4-1 victory and a 6-2 defeat. On that occasion, the last game the weather-man permitted Mitchell's proteges, Loughlin was in top form, while Braggiotti who was pitching his second stretch in three days, wasn't quite up to what he had shown against Tufts and Providence...