Word: damp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
...Sing Sing, a name which chimes fearfully in the ears of malefactors, which calls up to all U. S. citizens a vision of bleak grey prison walls, is not a "bad" prison. From the Indian "ossine ossine"? "stone upon stone"?came its name, appropriate to the old damp-walled dungeon beside the river, with cells 7 ft. x 3 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 6 in., built in 1825. But today most of the inmates live in new cell blocks on the hill above the Hudson River. The sizeable cells are equipped with modern sanitary apparatus...
...Madison the Greenbrier paused for the President to receive Indiana's salute. Only four guns of the 21-gun salute were fired. Damp powder exploded one cannon, killing National Guardsman Robert Earle, injuring three others...
...answer is that in early cotton spinning days, a peculiarly damp climate with chronic "bad weather" was necessary to make the cotton fibres cling properly together as they were spun into thread. All England is damp, but the atrocious weather typical of Lancashire, is positively ideal?for cotton spinning. Nurtured on this gift of Providence the mills of Lancashire have grown until they now number close to 2,000?for the most part, small, ugly mills employing a few hundred craftsfolk in each...
...Manhattan arrived last week damp London's courtly George Reeves Smith Esq., perhaps England's leading paladin and patron of the wine. Most smart U. S. citizens have stopped at one or another of his luxury hotels- the Berkeley, Claridge's, the Savoy-but few know that the presumably go-getting General Director of these up-to-date hostels is in fact contemplative Mr. Reeves-Smith, venerable doyen of British wine connoisseurs...