Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flig got its feet very damp...
...lost oases of Arkenu and Ouenat?little pits of damp sand in the southwest corner of Egypt...
What will be the joy then in many simple hearts to learn that the flapping oilskins on the damp boardwalks of Cambridge are also coming to be adorned with hearts, arrows, and an intermingling of significant initials. If only their owners could express that spirit of budding manhood by clapping their hands, nudging one another, and snickering a bit, what fun there would be. There is something about the whole practice so in keeping with the stern traditions that have raised Harvard above the class of giggling schoolgirls that it seems well at this time to offer a gentle word...
Those who know the King can imagine the disgust with which he received the doctors' recommendation. Some time ago, it was suggested that he should winter in the south of France to escape the bitter, damp, cold English Winter, but His Majesty declared: "My place is at home." He hates to desert what Poet Kipling recently called the "H. M. S. Britain," especially at a time when Parliament is in session and there are many questions to occupy his mind; for, although the King is normally a figurehead, an expression of national unity, actually he wields considerable power...
...second greatest* mining catastrophy known in Germany occurred in the Minister Stein† mine at Dortmund when 200 or more miners perished in an explosion of fire-damp...