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Word: aridity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy events occurred Monday night. In the acts of God category, arid Cambridge felt a few drops of rain; in the other instance, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players opened their sparkling production of The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: The Gondoliers | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

Although the 150,000-word report was primarily concerned with Soviet military intervention in Hungary, under the terms of the committee's appointment last January, it was a lucid, balanced, but devastating exposition of every phase of the Hungarian Revolution arid its origins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Words | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...great American desert," said J.S. Fox, "is not in Arizona, New Mexico, or Nevada. It lies under the hat of the average man." We optimistically anticipate a time, not too far off, when average will not be synonymous with arid, when character will loudly announce itself as itself, and not as someone else; when the mass will be so throughly revolted with the tasteless mess around it that it will act on its revulsion...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: The Anonymous Generation | 6/12/1957 | See Source »

...What has been carelessly referred to at Harvard as a 'religious revival' is obviously no such thing," Pusey stated. He said it was only one manifestation of a broad movement which stems from discontent with what has come to seem "exclusive, arid, and uncompromising, secular approach to life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Hear Pusey Give Baccalaureate | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...produced more than 4,000 bbl. of oil, can handle some 400 tons of rock a day. With a nest of such retorts, commercial production would be at least 20,000 bbl. a day. But that goal is five years off, warned Union President Albert C. Rubel. In arid Colorado, a big problem for industry is water. Though Union's experimental retort needs no water, the waxy shale crude does not flow well in a pipeline unless carried along by water, and the nearest source is the Colorado River 15 miles away. Even more important, Rubel thinks a profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Trillion-Barrel Field | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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