Word: drought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little licking flame, high up on the wooded slopes of Mount Tamalpais above San Francisco's Golden Gate, one day last week, started eating through timber dried by months of drought. A strong wind whistled to its aid. Soon Mount Tamalpais' long north and east slopes were ablaze...
Soviet reports of drought and dry winds following a late spring sowing have again come out of the Volga grain belt. The peasants are said to be worrying not only for their grain but for their potatoes. During the War and the subsequent Revolution when all else failed there were still potatoes to dull hunger-boiled and eaten with the skins...
...hasten to assure prospective voyagers on the Pacific that they need not trouble themselves to take passage under a foreign flag in order to escape the drought existent here. I have been a frequent passenger aboard Dollar liners, and I have never had to forego the pleasure of my evening cocktail. Though it is true that the ships carry no bars, a few words with the ingenious Chinese room boy and, lo, a bottle of the finest appears?really good, too. Their prices compare favorably with those existing aboard competing liners, prices ranging from three to ten dollars per quart...
...give Kansas City, Mo., the fourth largest public park in the U. S.* Swope Park, with its bathing beach, golf courses, tennis courts, bridle paths, zoo is one of the happiest things that ever happened to a city, though the buzzards that sometimes circle over it, especially during drought, are reminders of the gruesome death of the city's benefactor...
...Harvard canes, Hrvd No. 9072 and Hrvd No. 1192, included in the preceding analytical tests, for comparison with Cristalina, gave most satisfactory results. Hrvd No. 9072, a tenaciously rooted, drought-resistant variety, physically adapted for cultivation on the uplands, gave a cane yield of 56.2 arrobas per caballeria on a 1922 planting and a rate of 531 bags 96 degrees sugar per cab. Hrvd No.1192, on land similar to the Cristalina test, gave a cane yield of 53.990 arrobas, and a rate of 493 bags of sugar per caballeria...