Word: dryness
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...office, Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes returned to his home at Hillsboro, O., for rest. Washington, during his absence, buzzed with rumors that he would be a candidate for the next Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. His qualifications: 1) a close friendship with the late President Harding; 2) dryness enough to make him acceptable to the Anti-Saloon League and the two Ohio Senators, Willis and Fess...
This afternoon at three o'clock, regardless of the wetness or dryness of the weather and other conditions then prevailing, the CRIMSON'S prolific pen-pushers and Lampy's jesting jokers will meet in their annual baseball gambol on Soldiers Field. In spite of the fact that the CRIMSON'S ball club is known far and wide as a world-beating aggregation, the Ibis and his followers have so falsified reports of their prowess that the betting odds are even. This will only be the second defeat which the CRIMSON will have handed to Lampy this year, since the cowardly...
...serious attempt is being made by a group of optimistic seniors at Yale to place the students of that institution on a bone-dry basis. There are many who doubt very much whether the attempt will succeed in the near future, but those who doubt admit that bone-dryness is sure to come within a few years...
...famous men. His thorough schooling abroad had made him already proficient in Latin and Greek, but his son says: 'Agassiz had, however, no natural sympathy for the classics and the scientific trend given to his early studies had intensified a dislike of the subtle analysis, of language and the dryness of grammatical hair-splitting...
...Arequipa. In addition, the instruments and equipment for the observatory will be allowed to enter the country free of duty. The President of Peru was led to this action by reading a report by Professor Pickering, showing the need of a large telescope in South America, where the dryness of the atmosphere makes it possible to do the work of a forty-inch telescope with one of twenty inches. The report also showed that the field for astronomical work in the Southern hemisphere is very broad, as comparatively little original work has been done there. Harvard has had an observatory...