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...good. But what about the "forty days and forty nights" that the fountains of the deep were opened? What does that signify? The astronomers have shown that Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine months, nor years as the Bible has it. At that rate, the celebrated rain-storm of Noah's time lasted about three days and the Ark might well have been built right here in Boston. But movements in the earth's crust are of such a gradual nature that even Dr. Getsinger's twelve thousand years from submersion to emergence is pretty fast work. Nature never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD NOAH'S STONE BARGE | 6/22/1922 | See Source »

...heavy rain-storm created such a rise in Indian Creek at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Friday night that it overflowed, damaging property to the extent of $300,000. Many families were driven from their homes and hundreds of houses were inundated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 6/4/1883 | See Source »

...Scenery Day" was given on Thursday, the 4th of October. About thirty Freshmen and Juniors ascended Greylock in a rain-storm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

Prof. You have, perhaps, observed that when a severe rain-storm suddenly abates at night, the moon casts a greenish reflection and positions itself under the polar star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

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