Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful candidate has been forwarded a telegram of congratulation signed by the mock electorate in too, the nights' rest of these harassed statesmen should be slightly more recuperative than it has in the past. Although the decision of this Convention on Governor Smith's chances of carrying the arid west and the possibility of Mr. McAdoo's removing enough oil stains to be presentable will have no effect on the actions of the real Convention, it will provide a sort of search light with which acute minds way see a little farther into the future, which is at present concealed...
...arid Humbug's host...
...down to a spring, the significance of which was explained by Prof. James A. Montgomery, of the University of Pennsylvania. It was part of one of the most amazing engineering triumphs of ancient times ?the water system of Jerusalem. In the reign of David and before, this very arid region was believed to have been wholly dependent for water on the Spring of Gihon, near the base of the hill on which the ancient city was built. Pumps were then unknown. Underground canals carried the water to other points, at one of which a dam formed the pool...
...evening of Nov. 8, 1923, Adolph Hitler, General Ludendorff and their followers suddenly appeared before a gathering of Bavarian officials in the Burgerbrau Kellar (famed beer cellar), fired shots to obtain silence arid dramatically announced the overthrow of the Government, proclaiming themselves dictators...
...President gave prizes, offered by the Highway Education Board and the National Grange, to a teacher arid two pupils, authors of superior essays on highways...