Word: drought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dust. A big rubber man of Indo-China was pinned under the playwright's microscope and allowed to squirm heroically into the blessed state of matrimony. Scourges of the tropics?heat, drought, insects, dust?add to his squirms. He passes an uncomfortable and highly monosyllabic evening. He is the strong & silent type of rubber...
Flood Control. Simplicity wore a wry mask when the President wrote: "The Government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazard of the elements. We shall always have flood and drought, heat and cold, earthquake and wind, lightning and tidal wave, which are all too constant in their afflictions. The Government does not undertake to reimburse its citizens for loss and damage incurred under such circumstances. It is chargeable, however, with the rebuilding of public works and the humanitarian duty of relieving its citizens in distress...
...this irrigation system the Egyptians have seen a grave danger to their water supply, although the British have repeatedly proved that control of water in the drought seasons by no means meant a diminution of the supply. In the new dam project the Egyptians are therefore likely to see a further threat to their riparian agricultural interests...
...five pounds, skittering, burrowing, gasping in shallow puddles in the mud basin. Smaller fish seemed to have escaped by routes which, when geologists found them, showed that the sudden drainage was no miracle. Two crevices in the lake bottom had. opened, presumably by earth contraction during a local drought, emptying Pickett's Lake into the Sequatchie River, a mile away...
...never--even when it boasted of an opora company--set itself up as the center of the theatrical world. It has, however, managed to remain respectable in the matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline of "the road...