Word: simooms
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...simoom blew. Arkhangelsk snored in snows...
...have noticed several broad categories of hair styles. Most common perhaps are the bobs, especially the wind blows bobs. Depending on the weather and fluctuating fashions on Garden Street you can detect the sephyrblown bob, the tempestblown bob, the northeastblown job, and (on rare days) the simoom blown...
...Simoom, the hot, dry Poison Wind of Arabia, whole parties of men sometimes perish together. Nature thinks that perhaps they lose so much water by sweating (up to two quarts an hour) in the dry air that they lose the ability to sweat and their bodies become defenseless against the heat...
...graduating class would certainly be ready and willing to meet the expense of having the streets in the vicinity of the Yard thoroughly watered, - a suggestion which was made last year, but was not acted on. This would insure us against being again overwhelmed with such a dusty simoom as visited us last year. Furthermore, the turf in the Yard should be cared for; if it is dry, it ought to be watered sooner than the evening before Class-Day, as was the case last year...
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