Word: humidities
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Stubborn, high-strung Ted Schroeder, ex-Navy flyer and onetime U.S. singles champion (in 1942), never could sleep soundly the night before a big tennis match. Sometimes he got out of bed in disgust and ate a 4 a.m. breakfast. Last week, the hot, humid weather in Melbourne was no help. And it was no help either that he was the unexpected dark-horse choice to help Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 30) win the Davis Cup back from the Australians...
...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...
...study the growth of such a cell is difficult; it involves too many factors. So forward-looking biologists are trying to reduce cell growth to simplest terms. One of these simplifiers is British-born Professor Kenneth Vivian Thimann of Harvard. Last week, in an air-conditioned room (hot and humid), he was sprouting oat kernels in total darkness, observing them in dim red light...
...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...