Word: drouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the drouth of material in '36 and '37, it seems as if the Crimson's only hope of maintaining itself on even terms with its opponents is to turn up some good new men this year. Not that Yardlings of the last two years have contributed nothing to the present Varsity, but Dick Harlow is in real need of additional material...
...matted maverick in well-groomed Washington. But when he discovers that hoity-toity capital society functions as purposefully as a medicine show, he puts on a show of his own with motion pictures of his constituents' plight, gets Federal attention for his district's man-made "drouth...
...Cain's slaying of Abel was not jealous murder but a ritual for increasing the fertility of the soil. Recent finds in North Syria dating from, about the second millennium B. C. show that it was a ritual to kill a shepherd at the time of the summer drouth and that Cain probably worshiped by killing Abel...
...When a drouth occurred in the Volga in Russia we appropriated money to take care of those there in distress. When drouth occurs in the Mississippi Valley we have proposed to make another appropriation...
...doubt if, out of the million and a half people who are afflicted by reason of the drouth, there is a single man or woman who has ever asked a favor of the Government of the United States. How happy they would be if conditions were restored and nature should smile upon them again and they should be able to take care of their own, feed and clothe their own! How happy they would be to be relieved of the humiliation of going to the Government for help...