Word: raining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Rain and terrain are wonderful allies. Bad weather and forests helped Finland. Good weather and open country betrayed Poland, the Lowlands, France. Through such mountains and such torrents as northwestern Greece possessed, last week there could be no such thing as Blitzkrieg...
...Adriatic coastal plain, the Italians succeeded in driving a bridgehead across the Kalamas River, and in sending patrols several miles beyond the river. But this week the Greeks, greatly aided by the rain, claimed to have succeeded in pushing the enemy back to the bridgehead...
...them, studying lightning flashes by reclining on a Los Angeles curbstone in a pouring rain, was rushed to headquarters by suspicious police. Famed paleontologists like Barnum Brown of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and Chester Stock of California Institute of Technology were called in for advice. A herd of pet iguanas and a baby alligator wriggled over the Burbank lot, while animators studied their lizardy movements. By the time a complete cast had been rounded up for the Rite, the Disney zoo contained eusthenopterons, brachiosaurs, brontosaurs, plesiosaurs, mesosaurs, diplodocuses, triceratopses, pterodactyls, trachodons, struthiomimuses, stegosaurs, archaeopteryxes, pteranodons, tyrannosaurs...
This last four days of rain has practically changed the Business School field back into the swamp that it originally was. This soggy ground makes today's outcome more unpredictable, for anything can happen when both teams start skidding and tripping...
...Rain drove Harvard indoors yesterday afternoon, but Coach Harlow treated the team to a full workout in Briggs Cage. Brown plays came in for a lot of attention because Coach McLaughry has given his team an attack which is veiled in deception. Perfect execution of two or three plays a game has been enough for victory...