Word: humid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buses have other peculiarities. Above stairs, smoking is not only permitted, but virtually mandatory. On humid summer days the atmosphere is often as rich as that of an opium hell. The entrance doors are miracles of cunning engineering-folding contraptions capable of snapping like bear traps, and edged with rubber to convey the impression that they are incapable of decapitating the unwary...
...crops were being gathered and they were good. On the humid shores of Lake Valencia sugar was being cut and corn harvested. The beans of coffee and cacao were stripped from highland groves in the northwest. But, as usual, the rusty soil of Venezuela had not produced enough. Given sufficient agricultural machinery from abroad, it might be five years, announced Secretary of Agriculture Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, before the nation could feed itself...
...Exceptionally humid from New York to San Francisco...
Belmont Park was hot and humid as the three-horse field reached the post for the 54th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes. It was not the kind of day on which a smart colt would want to run 1⅝ miles - especially when his cut of the $25,000 added purse would only amount to an extra mouthful of oats. And the favorite, Mahout, who twice recently had bested the triple crown winner, Assault, was an intelligent beast. He was also without guile...
...cows-chewed their cuds last week in a New Jersey cow barn. They were the first Indian cattle to enter the U.S. since 1924. When sufficiently rested from a plane-ship-plane journey, they would start a major breeding project: begetting cows to bulge with milk on the humid, hot Gulf Coast...