Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pieces in 30 years there has been an ever-increasing interest among serious painters in the chemistry of their craft. Before the Brothers van Eyck popularized the use of oils in the 15th Century, almost all painting was either in fresco (pure pigment mixed with water and applied to wet plaster) or in tempera (ground pigments mixed with beaten egg and water and applied either to wood or canvas that is prepared with a plaster-like ground). Oil painting is easier and quicker, but fresco and tempera do not fade. In Manhattan last week, one of the very...
Perhaps she was never as strong and sturdy as her builders calculated on paper. Perhaps she had never really recovered from an old rib injury last year. Perhaps the wet windy weather had something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert...
...years about long-range weather forecasting that the rich, inquisitive Carnegie Institution of Washington lately decided that it must have more information on this stormy subject. Last week it seemed eminently proper that the Institution should turn to a man who knows how much rain has fallen every year, wet or dry, in various corners of the world, for hundreds and even thousands of years...
...disgrace, the contempt of his Negro guards. Then he tried to escape. After that he put in twelve hours per day at hard labor under a broiling sun, his legs weighted with heavy irons. The other twelve hours he spent chained hand & foot in a small, solitary dungeon, wet, hot, swarming with mosquitoes and vermin. His legs and arms swelled up and his hair fell...
...produced when warm, wet air encounters cold water, cold ground or cold air which condenses the moisture into droplets ranging from .00004 to .0008 of an inch in diameter. Thus last week's great pall was accompanied by unseasonal warmth. It was really a double blanket : an ocean fog caused by high pressure over the Atlantic and a land fog caused by low pressure over the Ohio and Mississippi valleys...