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The more CO2-dependent C3 plants have been at the lower limit of their viability for some time now, nor has the dominant cold-dry climate of the last few million years helped them much.
Matthew Yglesias » The Tragedy of Obama’s Climate Policy 2009
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When you breathe in cold-dry air, your body warms and humidifies that air.
Training Center: Training and nutrition in cold weather 2010
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Replied she, The four qualities of Caloric and Frigoric, Humidity and Siccity; for of heat Allah created fire, whose nature is hot-dry; of dryness, earth, which is cold-dry; of cold, water which is cold-wet; of moisture, air, which is hot-wet.
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Saturn, cold-dry and sinister, tarrieth in each sign thirty months.
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In cold-dry or hot-dry mountainous lands the reverse is the case; hence polygamy there prevails whilst the low countries require polyandry in either form, legal or illegal (i, e. prostitution) I have discussed this curious point of
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This relationship may indicate that the climatic pattern is the combination of warm-wet and cold-dry on centenary to millenary scale over the Northern Tibetan Plateau in the past 1000 years.
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Furthermore, in most of China including this NE TP region, at low-requency domain, temperature and precipitation is charaterized by combination of warm-wet and cold-dry.
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The cold-dry hypothesis of senescence is not, of itself, apologist.
LONGEVITY GERALD J. GRUMAN 1968
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"The desiccant and evaporative cooling effect work together to create cold-dry air."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The Galenic system linked the four elements and their qualities — fire (warm), water (cold), earth (dry), wind (moist) — with the four humors in the body: bile (warm-dry), phlegm (cold-moist), black bile (cold-dry), and blood (warm-moist).
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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