Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hottest city in the world is reputedly the Persian Gulf port of Muscat, capital of the arid little (82,000 sq. mi.) independent Sultanate of Oman, where the average rainfall is only 3½ in. a year. In September 1833, U. S. Special Agent Edmund Roberts visited Muscat to sign a treaty with His Majesty Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan of Muscat. In addition to reciprocal, most-favored-nation treatment of imports & exports, it provided that U. S. citizens rescued from ships wrecked on Oman's rocky coast must be entertained at the Sultan's expense. When he departed...
W1111am Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, is a spruce widower of 44 who sports a mustache arid has a huge fortune founded upon the British iron and steel industry. Fourteen years ago the Earl of Dudley arrived in the U. S. as equerry to the Prince of Wales. Two years ago the Earl visited the U. S. in a futile attempt to get the U. S. steel industry to join the European Steel Cartel. Last week the Earl of Dudley once more sailed into New York Harbor on the same errand...
...sake of miniature photography he tore a hole in the most obvious part of his pants on a barbed wire fence. It was easier getting back than it was getting over, for the picture--of dried hay in an arid field on a hot day--had been snapped to his satisfaction, and he had no need to hurry. But at the crucial moment of sliding beneath wire, he heard a noise that sounded unmistakably like a hostile creature of the pasture type. So he began to hurry, and he slid so fast there was another rip, and he found...
Died. Henry Kimball Hadley, 66, famed U. S. composer, conductor; in Manhattan. Dr. Hadley was the son of a musician, at the age of 17 had composed an operetta, Happy Jack, which is still performed in U. S. schools arid colleges. During his career as a composer he wrote four operas, four symphonies, innumerable songs, cantatas, tone poems. Able, though rarely inspired, Composer Hadley was a leading spirit in San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club, titled his most popular Overture In Bohemia...
...House Election Committee consists of six Democrats arid three Republicans. No surprise, therefore, was the Committee's vote last fortnight. 6-to-3 to unseat Jenks, give his seat to Roy. A surprise followed last week, a House vote rejected the Committee's decision. With 144 Democrats siding with Republicans, the House voted 231-10-130 to send the question back to Committee with unprecedented instructions: to take the individual testimony of 458 voters of the town of Newton, for 30 of the ballots which they cast have been lost, 34 ballots originally tallied for Jenks By actual...