Word: sedimentality
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...last week's report to his studies of solar radiation and terrestrial weather. Long and laborious research has convinced him that world weather tends to repeat itself in 23-year cycles, which he finds not only in longtime weather records but in tree rings, Great Lakes water levels, sediment laid down by ancient glaciers, annual catches of cod and mackerel. Temperature and precipitation forecasts for 1934 in 30 U. S. cities made on the basis of the Abbot cycle turned out, he declared, two-thirds correct...
Explained the lawyer: "Basic sediment and water deductions from crude...
...hills, and sheds and hovels were built on top of it. Now Fascist Italy, recalling the bellicose glories of her antiquity, has decided to lay bare the Circus. The sheds, hovels and a gas works have been razed, and removal has started of 800,000 cubic yards of sediment, all by hand labor. When the clearing is finished a great pageant of manly sport will be held in the arena, no doubt under the Caesarean eye of Benito Mussolini...
Though its date is still in doubt, the occurrence of the Flood is indicated by an eight-foot stratum of sediment (implying an immense depth of water) found in Ur of the Chaldees. Beneath this were relics of an even older civilization...
...Because it was first on the list, argol, a tartar sediment in wine casks, gave its name to that provision of the Dingley Tariff (1897) which authorized a President to negotiate reciprocity agreements on a few articles with other nations. "Argols" were back in last week's news as a result of White House conferences on ways & means of carrying out the Democratic tariff platform. The Constitution requires the Senate's "advice and consent" on most international agreements made by the President. The Roosevelt method apparently is going to be: get the "advice" first in the form...