Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Antoinette Carter Hughes, 81, publicity-shunning wife of retired U.S. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, great outdoors woman arid onetime mountain climber; in Washington...
Shanghai is still the metropolis where East & West meet with a loud clanging of political cymbals arid the thunderous tinkle of gold coins. The outward aspect has been little changed. You still see striking contrasts of native houses and vast modern apartment buildings. People swarm in the streets and traffic is a surging, endless stream of fatalistic pedestrians, caracoling bicycles, shoals of rickshas and fleets of pedicabs, which are a weird but surprisingly efficient combination of ricksha and bicycle...
...burden of the Middle East was still Britain's. Leftwingers came up with a suggestion likely to appeal to TVA-minded Americans: a Jordan Valley Authority which would irrigate thousands of now-arid acres, make possible development of light industries, enable Palestine to enlarge its population...
Samuel Barber: Symphony No. I (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Arid, intellectualized modern music. Performance: good...
...Japanese withdrew in China, puppets tumbled right & left. One of them was Henry Pu Yi, ex-Emperor of the ex-state of Manchukuo; he was a Russian prisoner. Another was Inner Mongolia's roly-poly Prince Teh (full name Teh-mu-chu-keh-lung-lu-pu), whose arid realm is the shortest international high way between Soviet Siberia and Peking...