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...Reason: Walter Sydney Adams, astute director of Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, said he had observed the Martian atmosphere for water-vapor content, found none or almost none-in any case (allowing for instrumental error) not more than 5% of the moisture in earth's air. In such dryness it seemed most unlikely that active animals could exist. In making his observations, Dr. Adams used "the most delicate spectroscope yet known...
...brake. Soon most motorists develop what Dr. Fabing calls an "anxiety neurosis in miniature," mainly centred in an uncertain right foot, but with other noticeable effects. On himself, Dr. Fabing noted "a quickening of my pulse by 25 beats ... a pilomotor [hair-on-end] response on my forearms, a dryness of the mouth, a sudden excessive sweating of the palms a feeling of epigastric distress...
...coarseness of the characters' remarks, makes running comments to fill in the gaps in the action while leaning nonchalantly on one side of the portal of the stage and puffing, away at his pipe, thanks the actors for the episodes they have presented, and counteracts with the dryness of his observations the sweetness and the sentimentality of the play...
Size of a grasshopper invasion depends on two factors: i) the number of eggs laid the previous year; 2) the wetness or dryness of the weather. Moderate rain during the spring months keeps down grasshoppers because in moist weather a parasitic fungus flourishes which preys on the larvae. Scientists estimate the number of eggs by digging up the ground, counting the eggs in small sample areas. After they brought in a heavy egg count last spring, followed by continued dry weather, they predicted the worst...
...afternoon there was no mistake; it poured. And the meeting of the Alumni Association wholeheartedly adjourned to the dryness of Sanders Theatre...