Word: rainstorms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conn., June 10--In the face of a driving rainstorm Saturday afternoon, Coach Brown's heavy Crimson crew started out from the New London Bridge with ten racing strokes on the first official time trial of the season over the four mile course...
...President Coolidge had prepared himself for a trip to Philadelphia. But he paused on the White House threshold, retreated, waited. From a window he watched a tornado which had come whooping up the Potomac from Alexandria, Va., at 92 m.p.h., to lay waste a strip of Washington. A crashing rainstorm followed the wind. When at last the elements permitted, the President set out for Union Station. The streets clanged with ambulances, fire trucks, police wagons. President Coolidge learned in due course that Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores...
Playing through a serious rainstorm over the windswept Knollwood course at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, the University of Chicago's "Maroon" team slashed drives from wet tees, mashied onto muggy greens, sank putts into brimful cups, to win the Big 10* golf championship last week. Best golf for the day was played by Ralph Kunstadter, University of Illinois, with two rounds...
...made a "newspaper story" of it. And as a result busy, aged Luther Burbank was last week obliged to hire seven additional secretaries to answer with natural courtesy the thousands upon thousands of letters relating to his religious views. A few days later, in a good, substantial California rainstorm, in the face of his wife's restraining pleadings, he motored from his Santa Rosa home, hitting water two feet deep, to San Francisco in order to read an exposition of his views to the congregation of the First Congregational Church. The auditorium was jammed by his admirers...
...winter training for Freshman oarsmen is an innovation started by Coach George Murphy, and has enabled the eights to get out on the river every day last week, although they were driven to shelter by a cold rainstorm on one occasion. They plan to continue, their daily outdoor workouts until ice prevents...