Word: dewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lowlands. The savage Britons of that Stone Age period, who had learned the art of domesticating animals, had to keep their cattle on the uplands lest they be devoured. On the uplands there were few streams of water. With the eerie ingenuity which savages sometimes manifest, the herders built "dew ponds" which stayed full of water though the animals drank from them every day. Some modern authorities contend that rain contributes practically all of the ponds' water supply, but others disagree, claiming that dew-moisture condensed from the air- provides the important portion...
...latter view is taken by the editors of Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin (chemical news and scientific miscellany), who discussed the British dew ponds in last week's issue and gave an explanation of the heat economy which makes them possible. "Recent research," said the Bulletin, "has shown that water is nearly perfect as a 'black body' or a body that easily gives off heat by radiation." The pond must keep cool so that dew will condense in it, and so that it will not lose much water by evaporation. If it is insulated...
...inscription over the door of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room, in Widener Library, will shortly be removed and replaced by a new one in memory of Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice, Keyes DeW. Metcalfe, director of the library, said yesterday...
PLEASE DON'T GIVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLACK EYE BECAUSE REPORTS OF OUR HEAVY DEW SOUNDED BAD. YOU DID THIS ABOUT OUR EARTHQUAKE YEARS AGO. AS THIS IS BEING WRITTEN NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY, THE SUN IS SHINING AND STREET IN FRONT OF PLOMB TOOL CO. IS PERFECTLY...
Breaking a six months' silence, Keye DeW. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, yesterday made his first statement of policy since taking up his duties last September. 'I shall make it my task to increase the efficiency of the library system as a whole," he said, "and to coordinate--not to centralize--the many, many libraries under my jurisdiction...