Word: raining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Columbus, Ohio, 73,000 rain-soaked fans witnessed a game long to be remembered. Michigan's hula-hipped Tom Harmon, foremost footballer of the year, ended his spectacular varsity career by scoring 22 of the 40 points that whitewashed Ohio State, 40-to-0. In 24 varsity games, Harmon has scored 33 touchdowns, kicked 33 points after touchdown, kicked two field goals for a total of 237 points-best scoring record in Big Ten history. Famed Red Grange, in 20 games, tallied 31 touchdowns...
...motor and airplane factories on the outskirts, but the entire heart of the city, square miles of workmen's homes in long neat rows; block upon block of shops and banks and pubs and offices; lovely old St. Michael's cathedral-all fell under the most concentrated rain of destruction yet loosed from the skies by mankind. What the Nazis had done to tiny Guernica in the Spanish war, to Warsaw by degrees and to a section of Rotterdam in one short blast, the Germans now did to Coventry. In the morning, what had been a thriving city...
...little boss men scurried from place to place last week. If the lives of millions of little plain men had not depended on what they did, their actions would have looked a little silly. Joseph Stalin's man, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, arrived in Berlin in the rain and was greeted by Adolf Hitler's men, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. At Anhalt station were also the Ambassadors of China, Turkey and Japan, bowing & scraping and watching Premier Molotov's every gesture for a hint of what Boss Stalin's intentions toward their countries might...
Fabulous was the Old Farmer's success in predicting diurnal or hebdomadal weather a year in advance. Legend has it that the publisher, pressed by a typesetter for a July 13 forecast, replied hastily: "Anything, anything." The impish employe set up "Rain, Hail and Snow." On July 13, sure enough, it rained, hailed and snowed.* A Providence, R. I. clerk kept count of the Old Farmer's forecast for 1900. It was 33% correct- 2% below the U. S. Weather Bureau's day-ahead record...
...week this postponement became official. Reason: Army supply services had broken down sadly in some areas. Troops at Fort Dix in New Jersey, at Camp Upton in New York, even at Fort McClellan in "sunny" Alabama, battled mud, cold, rain, the discomforts of temporary housing in tents, on the whole kept their chins up if not dry. But strikes, bad weather, poor planning in some instances delayed construction of permanent bar racks, finally caused the Army to put off calling its second quota of 60,000 trainees until early next year. Originally, the plan was to have 800,000 draftees...