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Word: humid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Clevelanders who grumble at their smoky, sprawling city's hot and humid summers, and its wet and windy winters, agree that Moses was smart; he returned to Connecticut and never came back to the town site named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES .& STATES: Cleveland's Planners | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...Humid. In the Omaha World-Herald, the weather bureau predicted: "Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers and warmer in the seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Select some hot, humid Monday in late June or early July, when man's faith in man reaches its perspiring nadir, to publicize "The Biggest Damn Fool of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...lecture hall was Surabaya's Rex Cinema, hot, humid and jampacked with soldiers. Britain's former Ambassador to Russia and next Ambassador to the U.S. stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Unfinished Tour | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...humid summer of 1942, Sergeant Nano Lucero and 80 other U.S. soldiers lived in a mountain hideout near Manila. Their food was smuggled in by friendly Filipinos. Among those who came bearing gifts were a young woman named Romana Romero, her sister and her brother. When word came over the guerrilla grapevine that the Japanese were on the way, Romana was the first to give warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: In Our Time | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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