Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fabre shunned the "solemnity, nay, better, the dryness, of the schools" in his writing, as he did the dreary probing of dead insects in his studies. To the pedants he said: "You rip up the animal and I study it alive . . . You pry into death, I pry into life...
...duke gets up, after eating three eggs with his steak. "Cheerio," he says. "We had a nice meal," he says. And what do the Irish do? As the Archangel Michael's a witness, they cheer. Cheer themselves hoarse, they do, which produces such a parching and a dryness of the entire population that, faith, by the time the young duke and his friends get back to their naval duty at Londonderry, you'd scarce find a sober breath in all Buncrana, and that's in County Donegal on the shores of Lough Swilly...
...five-room, second-floor flat on Brooklyn's McDonough Street, in a Negro neighborhood. His name is not on the door, and he knows few of his neighbors. How he feels about them shows through the guarded brevity of his speech, which sometimes carries a suggestion of dryness. Says he: "I don't want to bother with too many people who want to be my relatives...
...only training theater of operations. Like a battle area, it is organized into two zones: an inner combat zone, itself a fifth larger than Switzerland; an outer communications zone for supply troops. It spreads out over a barren, treeless land of salt lakes, crazily ripped by jagged, granite mountains. Dryness keeps the heat barely endurable: Last week it was 120° in rare patches of shade...
...principal dangers to art objects are given as light, dark, heat, flame, sudden and great changes of temperature, blast, mechanical violence, abrasion, dryness, dampness, water, chemicals, smoke and dirt, mold and insects...