Word: cloudbursts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true state of affairs outside, and then they make sundry efforts to preserve their morale. Then, it is not so much that the danger passes, as that they find that they never were really in any genuine trouble anyway. What they took for a flood was really only a cloudburst, and the hermetically sealed door and windows only served to make the room stuffy. The result of this blunder is a wave of cynicism decidedly more bitter than ever could have been the moral letdown following a period of real rather than imaginary distress...
...Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put out the blaze, rushed out once more as a cyclone struck the building, wrecked...
Before the game last week, Army prayed for a little drizzle to aid in staying the famed air attack of the Illini. The resulting cloudburst proved the undoing of a favored service team. Three big games are left on the schedule this year--Harvard, Notre Dame, and Navy. Really tested only twice so far, none of these games are being taken too lightly, especially since Army has just broken even on its tests with Yale and Illinois. Harvard wants revenge for 1932 and 1933; Army wants an outlet for its fury hitherto checked. Buckler's injury is only slight...
...Train parked one night last week on a siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat of British engineering in this...
...Tiberias, Palestine, a boy born during a cloudburst which killed 35 was christened Noah...