Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seven damp London winters have given Count Grandi rheumatism, and he has long wished to return to Italy. A recall so sudden that the British Government first learned of it from news dispatches came, however, as a surprise. Two months ago in a speech at the Embassy he violated diplomatic good manners by accusing Great Britain of a "foolish and criminal campaign of lies" against Germany and Italy and scoffing at the democracies' "furious impotence." But it was hinted that the Ambassador had spoken as a result of explicit orders from Rome and under protest, for he has been...
...distance, the public became more hysterical. In St. Louis, after he had left an outdoor table where he had eaten-as heartily as usual-with fellow officers of his old squadron, he finally saw what he was up against: women broke through the lines and fought for the still damp corncobs which he had chewed clean and left in a small mountain beside his plate...
...damp afternoon last week, just nine days after the U. S. submarine Squalus settled to the ocean floor off New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals, the British submarine Thetis (rhymes with lettuce)* nosed down the Mersey from Birkenhead into Liverpool Bay. Like the Squalus she was a brand-new vessel, and this was to be a final diving test run before she was turned over to the Royal Navy. Aboard was an unusually large company-103 men. Besides her regular crew of 53 there were civilian technicians, civilian Admiralty officials, a local river pilot and two waiters brought...
...Sydney last week Australia's Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, contracted a chill in the damp autumn weather; two days later he lay dead of a heart attack. His death ended his administration at seven years, three months -just two weeks short of the record made by Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
...hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity of 90%. Molds and bacteria, which would spoil such warm, damp meat if left to themselves, are put out of action by ultraviolet light from a Westinghouse lamp...