Word: wettest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consolation to the Cambridge citizen as he faces his fifth consecutive day of rain, the current storm may well break a rainfall record for the month of January. It has been the wettest January in the history of Boston...
...poll, a majority of 15,000 (out of 24,000) wanted modification of the Amendment; almost 5,000 admitted that they had, during Prohibition, been drunk on different occasions. Of the 15 colleges participating, Princeton and Harvard polled the wettest vote...
Weatherwise, the year which just ended was an outstanding one in at least three respects. It was as warm as any one on record in Cambridge. Also, it accomplished the almost phenomenal feat of being the second wettest year and at the same time delivering a crippling drought...
After floods, typhoons and the wettest summer in 50 years, Japan measured her rice crop last week and found it 2,000,000 tons short. The Ministry of Agriculture's verdict: the worst crop in twelve years. Japan, which even in good years must import rice (mainly from Siam), will be able to buy only about 1,000,000 tons, since prices are so high ($213 a ton) and most rice-surplus countries are lagging behind their prewar production...
...rain-maker's services may be at a premium this year, which has started off with the wettest spring on record. In the first four months of 1953 there was a total of 28.46 inches of precipitation (including rain, snow, hail and sleet). This is 15.59 inches over normal. In addition, March was the wettest March and the third wettest month in the 82-year history of the Boston weather bureau. April had more rain than any April since...