Word: damp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Damp weather conditions in Cambridge yesterday forced the cancellation of most of the large list of sports in which contests had been scheduled, as well as preventing the staging of intramural rugby games and an inter-squad race. The sports cancelled were as follows: 1934 lacrosse team versus Boston Lacrosse Club; 1934 tennis with Andover, and University tennis with Technology; and two baseball games--the second nine versus the Brown seconds, and the Freshman game with Worcester Academy...
...Damp or sultry weather may be uncomfortable for audiences at open-air concerts but it is the ideal condition for having well-balanced musical tones, according to an observation by Dr. Vern Oliver-Knudsen, acoustic expert at the University of California. In ordinary weather, low tones carry much better than high ones, which have less energy. In humid air the high tones ride on the particles of suspended moisture, helping the hearer to perceive the complete orchestration...
...chilly air of night is damp, And dews are falling fast...
...were chewed and waved. Backs were violently slapped, greetings bellowed. The sour grey air vibrated with the full blare of a brass band. In the centre of the boisterous human pack stood beefy, bloodshot Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, He was in his shirtsleeves. His flushed face was damp. His eyes bulged with excitement. His voice was hoarse from gleeful roaring...
...damp morning last week, ten U. S. Marines with a roll of telephone wire rode on mule-back along a narrow road under the shadow "of towering, jungle-clad mountains near the Honduras border. Their job was to repair a telephone wire that somebody had cut during the night, their only thought was to finish the job and get back to barracks before lunch. Near a straggling corn patch they found the broken end of the wire drooping from a pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months...