Word: drier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Mr. Marshall proceeded to list rainfalls from 1825 to 1924 to show that, with only two exceptions, a drier-than-normal four years was followed by the defeat of the party in power; with only one exception, a wetter-than-normal four years heralded continuance in power...
...straight to the office of Professor Charles F. Marvin, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who is the last word on rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window panes in 1927 and 1928, meteorologists must predict defeat for Republicans...
Between 2 and 5 o'clock this afternoon, the first collection of old books for the Phillips Broks House Text Book Loan Library will be made, it was announced last night by J. C. Drier '28, Librarian of the Phillips Brooks House. The second collection of the annual spring drive will swing under way one week from today on June 11. The collections will be made by automobile...
There will be collections by automobile from 2 to 5 o'clock on Friday, June 4, and on Friday, June 11. Books of all kinds will be welcomed, but text books are particularly needed. The drive is being conducted by J. C. Drier '28, Librarian of the Phillips Brooks House...
Prohibition's best friend is Kansas. In the newspaper poll of the nation just now compiled sentiment everywhere ran overwhelmingly in favor of modification or repeal except in a few southern states and in Kansas. Kansas was dry--incomparably drier than any other state in the Union. The natural query is, what manner of commonwealth is this that, alone among its fellows outside the stolid South, still stands so stubbornly beside its Volsteadian guns...