Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These areas usually proceed across the U. S., from west to east, in a stately procession so that the weather changes every two or three days, cool winds from the moving highs, which are generally accompanied by fair weather, blowing into the intervening lows where cool winds meeting hot moist air cause rainfall...
...Atlantic Coast on his Day (July 15),* and on day after day thereafter the skies opened, the clouds burst and most of the East from Maine to Georgia was drenched to sogginess. Meteorologists explained that a "cold front" had merely come to a halt at seaboard, meeting warm, moist airs from the sea. This knowledge "was small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut, potatoes on Long Island, cotton in Georgia. Big League baseball games were repeatedly postponed, golf tournaments delayed, resort business washed...
...southern England 3,000 years ago, voracious packs of wolves roamed the moist lowlands. The savage Britons of that Stone Age period, who had learned the art of domesticating animals, had to keep their cattle on the uplands lest they be devoured. On the uplands there were few streams of water. With the eerie ingenuity which savages sometimes manifest, the herders built "dew ponds" which stayed full of water though the animals drank from them every day. Some modern authorities contend that rain contributes practically all of the ponds' water supply, but others disagree, claiming that dew-moisture condensed...
...difficulty in coping with the minute amounts that are inhaled in the most dusty atmospheres, provided the subject is given an adequate rest period away from these atmospheres." But people who live in damp and dirty cities have no such assurance, because ''it seems possible that a moist atmosphere might tend to agglomerate particles of suitable dusts, and turn them into a semifluid, which could interfere with ciliary action...
Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough. In this subtly cockeyed novel so much is clear from the start. And his master, Sir John, was the son of a courtly rake whose adventures in the Edwardian era had burdened a number of titled matrons with offspring of discreetly doubtful parentage. One of the doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also...