Word: shadeless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many another staunch spirit was equally unstarched last week. In a quick one-two, Britain's July temperatures had shifted from the coldest since 1901 to the hottest on record at Kew Observatory. On shadeless Dartmoor, escaping Convict Maurice Patrick Murphy gave up the chase and called to his pursuers: "This way, boys, it's too hot for hikin'." While police in radio cars patrolled seaside resorts, pleading with parents to keep their children out of the sun, two prize pigs at an agricultural show in Lyndhurst dropped dead after winning a ribbon apiece...
...Boston, authorities heeded the silent pleading of the late Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees) by approving a project to plant a tree in the shadeless yard of the Joyce Kilmer School...
...nearby hills, a new, shadeless city of 33,000 people spread itself-the Portuguese-style manor house of Engineer Soares, the well-equipped homes of the 45 U.S. technicians who directed the mill's construction, 2,800 two-family workers' cottages, complete with wooden floors and bathrooms...
...Army has grown 548% since 1936, but one branch of it, the Engineers-which last week stood a review on the shadeless, red-dusty parade ground of Fort Belvoir, Va., 15 miles south of Washington on the bank of the Potomac-has grown...