Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sunspot may have something to do with the drought which the past fortnight has afflicted U. S. farmers, restricted the water supplies of many communities (TIME, Aug 12), made tinder for forest fires. Sunspots become active in regular 11-year cycles. Although the present cycle was at its top in 1928, its 1929 decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were...
...Doctors at Ripley, her home, and Memphis, where she was hospitalized, sought causes-irritation of the stomach's mucous membranes, affection of the phrenic (diaphragm) nerve, peritonitis, sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), methyl chloride escaping from a mechanical refrigerator. None of these were causative. They made her gulp cold water and hold her breath. That usually stops hiccoughs, but not Vera Stone...
...Santa Cruz, Calif., one Amandus J. Paulsen, paralysed in legs and hands, cut his throat, lay in a tub full of water, turned on the gas. He was found and taken to a hospital, awoke to find he had recovered from his paralysis...
...latest husband, James Henri la Baily de la Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, squealed with delight at a present in her steamer stateroom. Within a gilt-edged, blue-ribboned box, wreathed with laurel, lay an antique bottle labelled: Bethlehem Rye, Guaranteed Twenty Years Old. She sent for charged water, ice, glasses, corkscrew. She held the bottle to the light to admire its tawny contents. The bottle was empty...
...rolling was won by Peter Hooper of Kelso, Wash. Clad in trunks and spiked shoes, he maintained his equipoise on a log furiously spinning in water for 14 min. 50 sec., when Sam Harris, his nearest competitor, splashed off. Champion Hooper received $150 and a belt stout enough to hold his bemuscled girth...