Word: damp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...
...Wisconsin conservation commission had appointed John La Roque, a half-breed (Chippewa-French) several years older than Calvin Coolidge, to be the official Coolidge fishing guide. Newsgatherers, barred from the damp fastnesses of the Cedar Island estate by iron gates and soldiers, got hold of Guide La Roque and questioned him. Thus spoke...
...nomination of the silent and efficient Hoover is no divagation. Before Friday night he had no private life, and what he has since acquired is powerful and touching. In his habits he is not of the people, as he is for them, like the Tammany giant whose "damp shirt sleeves" and proclivity for spittoons the engaging weekly "Time" has unworthily noticed. This New Yorker is Anteus at present, it is true, in the bosom of his native city, but when he is lifted high into the spotlight of national polemics, he must inevitably weaken, and leave for workaday Hoover...
...realize that you have put Mrs. Smith of Oliver Street and Albany in a category with "spittoons, chewed cigars, damp shirt sleeves and profanity...
...week ago sought the cooling solace of the northern mountains will read this morning accounts of tennis matches and baseball games cancelled on account of rain, of lacrosse contests played in mud and drizzle, and of snow welcoming the Crimson cohorts to Virginia. A cool, and even somewhat damp, vacation was enjoyed by all of those north of the Mason-Dixon line, and it is not unpleasant to the less charitable to know that their more favored brethren fared little better...