Word: aridity
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...