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Word: humid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Houston, Tex. Houston will be hot. Houston will be humid. On June 26, Houston mosquitoes will be hungry. At a National Democratic Convention, tempers run short even oftener than monies. The Moody-boosting for Vice President will probably die down next week as lightly as it sprang up last week after Governor Moody's appearance in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Houston | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital operating room last week, one Dr. John Miller was performing a delicate operation on a patient's throat. Surgeon, assistants and nurses were wrapped in sterile linens. Suddenly, into the humid room, sidled one Leo Goldstein, process server, wearing a surgically filthy raincoat. "Scat!" cried a nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Villain Caught | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Miscarriage of Justice! were snapped up by workmen hurrying to their factories, an opinion rapidly sprang up that it would be better to spend the day demonstrating in the broad, tree-shaded streets of Vienna, rather than to ignore the cause of JUSTICE by laboring as usual in some humid factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Riots | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Hundreds of red-cheeked British women carried their "brollies" (umbrellas) around the golf links at Newcastle, in County Down, Ireland, last week. A few of them pursued small white balls over the humid turf, for the women's championship of Great Britain was in progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In County Down | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...humid did the study become that it was voted to remove to the nearby Calvary Church auditorium. There were many more questions to ask. True, this lanky cub was the son of no less a lion than Roach Straton himself. True, Roach Straton had trained this supple shoot (Hillyer Hawthorne Straton) with his own unswerving hand; had taught him righteousness with his own fierce tongue-the hand and tongue that have repeatedly been brandished to denounce modern young womanhood ("The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth!"); that have scoured Berlin, Paris and London for loathsome pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Son-of-a-Pastor | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

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