Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in New York, Dr. Newton became pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity which he gave up in 1925 because of the ''arid liberalism" of Manhattan theology. He went over to the Episcopal Church which he called, in the words of Phillips Brooks, "the roomiest church in Christendom." Dr. Newton needed room. Burly, round-faced, sharp-eyed, a fluent preacher, he had brought with him poetic mysticism without losing any of his old-time Baptist zeal. An authority on Abraham Lincoln, he read 2,000 works before writing Lincoln and Herndon. For McCall's Magazine...
...that they might be called Moslem Fundamentalists; and because few Christians care a whoop what happens in Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is always scarce, usually untrustworthy. Biggest Christian news of recent years was the 58-day trek of English Explorer Bertram Thomas across 900 miles of arid waste, famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March 9. 1931). Last week the U. S. State Department received its only notice of King Ibn Saud's doings from his Minister in London...
...Commercially the small, oily Kingdom of Irak completely eclipses the large, arid Land of Saud. Irak exports were $27,600,000 for 1930 and imports $15,000,000, as against insignificant exports and imports for Ibn Saud's Kingdom which makes most of its money on pilgrims. Lackadaisical Moslem tribes in Malaysia are becoming markedly more energetic as their pious women constantly return from Holy Mecca and give birth to fighting half-breeds--an "invisible export" of the Land of Saud...
Separating Bakersfield, Calif, and the San Joaquin Valley from the Mojave Desert are the Tehachapi Mountains, an ugly, arid range. Fortnight ago black clouds gathered over them. Early in the afternoon it began raining. Creek beds that had been white and dry all summer became lashing rivers. Oldtimers in the small towns along the canyon sensed high-water and set out for high ground. Sixty tramps on a freight train which had sided on a culvert grew restive as the sound of rushing water grew into a mighty roar. When the flood broke, a 45-ft. wall of water tore...
...necessarily confined to regions where hills & valleys provide barriers over which the prevailing winds must jump, causing sustained updrafts; or where plowland, woods & water heat and cool the wind, cause rising convection currents. A skilled pilot may soar for hours from ridge to ridge, now & then picking out an arid patch of ground over which he can climb a rising flow of warm air as he would a circular staircase. A high development of the sport is "cloud-hopping," "hooking on" beneath a cumulus cloud, which always indicates warm air, and riding it for miles. Similarly an advancing thunderstorm always...