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...gift of nature of which expansive Southern California does not boast is floods. After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90°, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst. The precipitation, 7.26 in., made the wettest early December since 1889, reminded frightened Los Angelenos of their disastrous floods last March (11 in. in five days). Casualty: a ten-year-old boy fell and was knocked unconscious, drowned in a puddle. Wisecrack: Radio Comedian Bob Hope complained that he had been arrested for going through...
...TIME attempted an ironic shot, but the powder was damp...
Statistics show 129 yards by rushing for Yale to 72 by Harvard. The way Yale was able to gain through the line was discouraging; but the day was made to order for the lumbering Eli offense. The Pondmen were really the "pond-men." The field, first damp, became progressively soggy and saturated. The crowd was wet throughout...
Last week, a high over the southeastern States spread hot moist air from the Gulf of Mexico across the eastern half of the U. S. and southern lows simultaneously moved farther north than usual. Result: a predominance of hot and damp southern air. One good low, traveling across the country, would have attracted cooler air from Canada, but instead of enjoying cool Canadian breezes, the U. S. was treated to an uninterrupted outpouring of subtropical...
...factories, mills or mines, were the conclusions of Dr. Barclay & associates. "Healthy lungs should have no difficulty in coping with the minute amounts that are inhaled in the most dusty atmospheres, provided the subject is given an adequate rest period away from these atmospheres." But people who live in damp and dirty cities have no such assurance, because ''it seems possible that a moist atmosphere might tend to agglomerate particles of suitable dusts, and turn them into a semifluid, which could interfere with ciliary action...