Word: moistly
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Their quarters were purposely kept dank and moist. They ate miserable special diets of concentrated food. For weeks on end they disciplined themselves to work and live and spend drab hours in closetlike confinement...
...successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
...under ordinary conditions it is impossible to duplicate the natural forces that make rain. But Table Mountain's "cloth" is not an ordinary cloud. Created by a wet south easter that constantly blows against the upper slopes of the mountain, the cloud, spilling over the mountainsides, is so moist that water drips from the trees and bushes it envelops, and rainfall high on the mountain averages up to 72 inches a year...
...particular bacillus used in Dr. Francis' experiment was taken in 1923 from a sick California ground squirrel. It was used to inoculate 48 test tubes partly filled with beef infusion agar jelly. The tubes were tightly sealed to insure a moist atmosphere and stored at a temperature...
...already had some experience in Anglo-American relations. Once Portland entertained Lord and Lady Halifax; Mayor Riley sent an official car to take Lady Halifax to a luncheon. The official car turned out to be an old Chevrolet, driven by a shirt-sleeved policeman slightly moist with heat and embarrassment. Relieved to find the Mayor's wife in Lady Halifax' party, the policeman struck up a lengthy conversation...