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Word: rainstorms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went with him on a cross-country honeymoon tour. Seamans describes the trip through a Nebraska rainstorm: "The windshield was down, the top blew off, and it was like riding in a bathtub. The highest point in the car was the steering wheel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Lowell's Buick Phaeton Has Its Third Undergraduate Owner | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...better gags in "Movie Crazy" are visual, and the most inspired scenes need no sound at all. One such shows Lloyd, wearing one shoe and a-straw hat, pursuing his other brogan through a rainstorm as it is carried along in a gutter millstream to the inevitable sewer inlet. Later on, the hero inadvertently dons a magician's dress coat, complete with eggs, mice, sausage, rabbits, and the traditional squirting carnation, and has himself a time on a crowded dance floor...

Author: By Aloysius B. Mccabe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...definitely has not blinded himself to other improvements. Merely as a matter of comfort, the MTA was requested to raise the level of the trolley tracks on the Coop side of the kiosk, thereby removing the hollow that was turned into a sea of mud and water almost every rainstorm. Davis, furthermore, is well aware of the student's plight in crossing Cambridge Street. He would like to see as topflight installed at that point, and is working for one at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...Hands. In North Little Rock, Ark., police arrested N. B. Beaugard for changing his shirt while driving through the city's main street in a rainstorm at 75 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Playing the first half of its game at Springfield in clouds of dust stirred up at every step, and the last half in a semitropical Connecticut rainstorm, the lacrosse team fought its way through the elements and a tough Springfield squad to win, 7 to 6, Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150-lb. Crew Finishes Third in Title Race; Lacrosse Team Wins in Dust, Rain, 7-6 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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