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Word: polarity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warm tropical air, saturated with moisture and meeting a drift of cold polar air over the Ohio Valley, is the cause of the floods in that region, Charles F. Brooks '11, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory, told a CRIMSON correspondent last evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIXTURE OF COLD AND WARM AIR CAUSES FLOOD | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

...other factors contribute toward excessive rainfall. One is that the polar winds have been recurring in blasts, rather than blowing in a steady stream. This allows the warm air to form in a thicker layer between blasts, concentrating precipitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIXTURE OF COLD AND WARM AIR CAUSES FLOOD | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

...want no Dictator!''* King Edward, motoring in from his suburban snuggery (where Mrs. Simpson and her chaperon Aunt Bessie have been with him several nights each week), blows off steam at Buckingham Palace by rejecting a new set of designs for British Army uniforms. He chats about Polar conditions with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who afterwards calls His Majesty "cheerful" and denies they talked about selling the King's money-losing Canadian ranch. Edward VIII does the duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

PEARY-William Herbert Hobbs-Macmillan ($5). A frosty account of Admiral Peary's eight polar expeditions, in which the author's partisanship is concentrated on riddling Dr. Cook's rival claim as discoverer of the North Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...city's leading bankers delivered last week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. "The decision of France to readjust the value of the franc," said Mr. Chamberlain, "must have come like the cracking of the ice at the approach of a warmer season to a polar explorer whose ship has been frozen for months into immobility. ... If we can prevent violent fluctuations of the valuation of gold as ex pressed in terms of commodities, I see no insuperable obstacles in the way of our ultimately arriving at a currency system based on free exchange of gold. . . . We will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Economic Pacification | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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