Word: raining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...final score was 49 to 23 against the previously invincible Cambridge Crushers, whose passing attack was smothered by the rain and left powerless by Stearus' indiscreetly involving himself in a small pregame celebration...
...looked like a close battle until the last minutes of the first period, when the Bengala drew their first blood with a score from the toe of Tigerman Worthington. After the initial tally the Princeton scoring machine went into action. In spite of the mud and rain their sparkling offense proved too much for the Carrmen and so the second period ended with two more goals for the boys from New Jersey...
They will bear looking into. First, it was a dark night, which makes torpedoing a very hard job, even assuming that by pure chance the vessel should have been discerned-she was showing no lights, I presume. More important, it was an exceedingly stormy night: high wind, mountainous waves, rain and spray. Ask a naval expert about this-he will probably tell you that effective submarine operations under such conditions are all but impossible. Secondly, two torpedoes were reported, which is strange, considering the relative unimportance of a passenger vessel...
There will be three short speeches, given by Sherm Gray, president of the Undergraduate Athletic Council, Captain Joe Gardella, and Coach Dick Harlow. The entire program will not last more than 20 minutes, and in the event of rain, the assembly will be moved to Briggs Cage...
...adult male quetzal flies slowly and gracefully, swirling its long tail plumes to dodge branches. It lives only in a few damp jungles or rain forests at altitudes of 5,000 ft. or more, nests in hollow trees perforated by woodpeckers. From the nests, which are hard to find, the young can be taken during the nesting season. Surprised in their sleep, adults can occasionally be caught by hand. Natives also captured live adults for von Hagen by stunning them in the open with slingshots. If confined after capture, the grown birds are likely to beat themselves to death, unless...