Word: humidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weatherman. Since the first rickety air conditioners were put on the market* just 20 years ago, great strides have been made. Noise has been virtually eliminated, and the late models can serve up any kind of indoor weather desired-dry, humid, warm or cold. General Electric engineers are trying to bring a still more revolutionary device, the "heat pump," whose workings have long been known to science, down to a popular price. G.E.'s heat pump is little bigger than a large refrigerator; at present, it still costs more than $3,000 installed. Driven by electricity, using no fuel...
...samples "advertised as containing specified amounts of vitamin A" were no good. In some shops, he found vitamin stocks that were 17 years old. In other cases vitamins had lost their punch through being exposed to the sun in window displays, or through being kept in humid closets and drawers...
This week, some 800 miles farther along its west-northwesterly track, the hurricane lost much of its starch lashing the hardwood forests of Yucatan. But as it entered the Gulf of Mexico, the air was humid and hot-just right to regenerate the black storm...
...agree on what education is or should be. Throughout the U.S. last week, the West Point scandal (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was raising dust storms of argument. The dust might obscure the old, sphinxlike questions, but it blended nicely with the U.S. moral climate-which Americans in general found squally, humid and oppressively misty. And obviously education had something to do with that ethical mistiness. Nearly everybody -from editorial writers to policemen-had something to say on the subject...
Evocative, humid, esoteric, synoptic anecdote-where does Mandel get this stuff? It sounds like he's been sitting up all night with Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, by Dr. Wilfred Funk...