Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Agriculture, which showers meticulous bulletins on the Press about most of its doings, is inclined to silence and anonymity when it grapples with plant ailments that might be harmful to human consumers. For many months the Department has been trying to find out why, in a few arid regions of the Southwest, wheat, corn and alfalfa are sickly, and why cattle fed solely on this sickly fodder are puny and short-lived. The Department did not like to hear ranchmen blame "alkali disease," because during the last century alkali disease afflicted the Indians inhabiting the same areas. Last...
...state house which existed for 160 years in what is now Pennsylvania. Johann Printz is only one of many historical characters for whose recognition in the schools C. Hale Sipe has crusaded. In his lectures and books (The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania, The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania, Fort Ligonier arid Its Times} he has zealously reminded Pennsylvanians of their history. During the fortnight past two Pennsylvania news-papers-the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Oil City Blizzard-commended C. Hale Sipe and urged their readers to be aware of such facts of his as these: Philadelphia Tea Parties took...
...glimmer of gayety; blind gray headland and arid mountain, and trailing from his shoulders the infinite ocean. Poet Jeffers likes lengthy poems in which his long-limbed lines have room to move, but he sometimes cramps himself into briefer limits. In his latest collection he includes 24 short poems, three long ones...
...cellulose derivatives in certain ways. It can be mixed with them, as in plastics. It resists water, decay and flames, has advantages as an adhesive, in sizing paper and textiles, and in finishing leather. Chemist Morris Omansky, Boston consultant, reports zein useful as a reinforcing compound for rubber manufacture, arid Dr. Barnard thinks the protein substance might be turned into artificial silk...
...overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into a marsh. Part of the project was to use the futile Tarim to irrigate arid Sinkiang Province, end its paralyzing famines. To fix where the life line will fall, Nanking last week appointed famed Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin to be surveyor-in-chief. Stocky, prosaic Surveyor Hedin planned last week to take over his eight-month...