Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold snap such as they had not known for years. Dr. Krick bobbed up with a pat explanation for these phenomena. This 31-year-old meteorologist, who was a stockbroker's assistant and once a piano accompanist, predicted last September that Southern California was in for a cold, wet winter. He believes that, although the boundaries between cold and warm air masses are constantly shifting, they tend to keep average positions on the map which he calls "semipermanent boundaries." One of these lies east of the Rockies, separating cold air on the east from warm air on the coast...
...wooden tower erected on the rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags, their eyes with castor oil, and hurled machine parts and small containers of acid at the tower. Inventor of the tower was a former professor of English at the University of Illinois, now a Fansteel attorney. Remembering the battle towers used in ancient siege operations he designed...
...Allies, while the Germans switched to diphosgene which is less stable than its chemical brother but easier to fill into shells. The phosgenes accounted for 80% of the War's fatal gas casualties. Nevertheless, it had a tell-tale odor, efficient anti-phosgene, masks were developed, and wet weather weakened its effect, made it visible. Author Prentiss does not regard its future chances highly...
...South Africa when the Boer War began, and he stayed through it, enjoyed himself hugely. Very popular with the troops, he raised quarter of a million pounds for them from the royalties of some popular verses (The Absent-Minded Beggar). Very British about the Boers, he recalls that De Wet with 250 men, Smuts with 500, were handy fighters; "but, beyond that, got muddled." After the war he took a house for his family at Cape Town, next to Cecil Rhodes's, wintered there for seven years. Kipling's best-known poem, If,* which has been translated into...
...future "problems and policies" which the Spirits Institute feels it must solve and formulate were apparently considered by the industry as too "broad" to be handled by plugging, business-like Dr. James M. Doran. executive secretary who wet-nursed the business through the ordeal of Repeal regulations, or Distiller Owsley Brown of Louisville, whom Mr. Morgan replaces as the Institute's president. What the Institute was out for was a Tsar of high power, smoothness and influence. In fact, among those first approached was none other than Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...