Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population last week began to clarify in complexion and assume very vivid colors in makeup. Some time ago the Democrats, whose stronghold is New York City, discovered that it was good policy to be Wet. The Republicans, much of whose strength is in upstate Dry regions, have heretofore been arid. The leaders to be chosen for this year's electoral battle were eagerly awaited. The one sure contestant had been Republican Senator Wadsworth, who comes up for reelection. He is the representative of a "landed family," the members of which have since 1790 acquired 35,000 acres of land...
...sufficient violence to move buildings eight inches in the island's principal settlement, Hilo, on the east coast. In the mahogany and sandalwood forests and sugar plantations under Mauna Loa's great flanks, damage was extensive, though for the most part the lava followed its old paths, which lie arid and deserted...
Today I have put away all arid, spiritless charts, and raise my eyes unto the hills, and turn my steps toward them...
...devoted and faithful friend of his country", one more soldier of the Revolution will be rescued from the limbo of almost forgotten generals whose chief glory seems to exist, according to the popular mind, in a solitary monument on some old battlefield, or in the musty texts of arid histories and encyclopedias...
...sent out despatches that provoked excitement in the U. S. Senate. It appeared that at the instance of Austen Chamberlain, the Council of the League of Nations took measures to summon a meeting of nations next September to which it was understood that the U. S. would be invited, arid at which the matter of the U. S. reservations in joining the World Court would be clarified and the necessary acceptance gained for the U. S. reservations...