Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine months of the year the northeast trade winds blow across the Gulf of Venezuela into Colombia, where the Andes taper off in three great wrinkles in the earth's crust. As the warm, moist trades are deflected upward by the first mountain range the air is cooled, releasing part of its burden of rain. In the tropical night an almost continuous electrical display can be seen along the mountain peaks, resembling successive flashes of sheet lightning. This phenomenon is called the "Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish...
...oystershells. Instead of this stock remedy, the company's chief agronomist, white-thatched, red-faced James Wilkes Jones, advised treating the soil itself. Upon examination he found that it consisted of nonporous and nonabsorbent substances. To rectify this, to get a soil that was ''friable, moist and mellow," he had ten tons of secret minerals churned into the soil by a special harrow and hopper-spreader. By September, after two months of semiweekly treatments, Agronomist Jones felt the best possible moisture control had been obtained. The surface, he proudly puffed, was "like an Oriental...
...stretch near Ithaca, N. Y. came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard like concrete, retards evaporation so that the surface remains moist and firm, provides an almost nonskid track. The cost per mile ($1,200) is about a third that of asphalt, one-twentieth that of concrete...
...first standard high-priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than $1,000,000, were ahead of those of one of its two rivals, Parker...
...physiological mechanism which produces exophthalmic goitre remains a medical puzzle. In typical cases the thyroid is enlarged and the eyeballs protrude from their sockets. But neither pop eyes nor big neck are essential symptoms of exophthalmic goitre. A rapid pulse, moist skin and loss of weight, despite a good appetite, suggest the disease. The patient is restless and irritable, laughs and cries easily, becomes angry and excited at the least provocation, is comparatively insensitive to cold. An unfailing test for exophthalmic goitre is the basal metabolism rate, measured by a simple breathing machine. If after a long rest...