Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give an example or two: consider a day where the ordinary dry bulb thermometer reads 86°, and the relative humidity is 93%. The wet bulb temperature would...
Consider another day when the dry bulb temperature is 102° but the relative humidity is only 47%. The wet bulb temperature would again be approximately 84°, and the victim would suffer no more than on the first day in spite of the fact that the temperature is 18° higher...
...Minister Chamberlain dramatically seeking peace from Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden (see p. 75), tension was less that evening than it had been for several days. Mr. Hull met the President's train mostly as a favor to the press. Otherwise reporters would have had to wait through a wet evening before filing accounts of the President's conference with his top diplomat. Similarly, the President's press conference was really canceled because he needed time to read reports. And Secretary Woodring had gone to the station for no reason more pressing than courtesy to his chief...
...York last week Hearstmen worried about another fire which burned 1,500 tons of paper in the building where the Journal & American is published. Rewrite men stuck to their desks on the sixth floor, wrote the story with wet handkerchiefs dangling over their eyes to keep out the smoke...
...atmosphere contains huge curling streaks, or tongues of air, said Professor Rossby, which remain at fairly constant potential temperatures and specific humidities, are not considerably affected by winds. Their rates of drift are variable. Two types of tongues have been discovered: 1) dry, usually coming from the north; 2) wet, coming from the south. A large tongue may stretch for 1,500 miles across the U. S., and 20 or 30 smaller streaks may be observed in one day, forming a roof over the entire continent. Plotted on a meteorological map they resemble a mass of partly coiled snakes. Although...