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Word: drier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ivan R. Tannehill, also of the Weather Bureau, is less skeptical. He thinks the U.S. climate is really getting warmer and probably drier too. His tentative explanation: a slow increase in radiation from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Getting Warmer? | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Even in its drier passages The Town is always readable, full of a sweet nostalgia that only occasionally spills over into sentimentality. Its publisher announces it as part of "a great American epic," which is overstating the case. The Town is something more modest but almost as enjoyable, a good bit of fictional Americana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Taming of Ohio | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...does not the rabbi run? He cannot move; the chained Beast in the corner has entangled him. The mother under the drier, seen in the mirror, is already being burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1950 | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...thirds of this flow (13 mm.) was normal for youths and young men from 16 to 29. The doctors squeezed out two more drops of information: from ages 30 to 60, men & women seem to have about the same capacity for tears; beyond 60, women seem to be slightly drier-eyed than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Weeper Sex | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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