Word: damping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accurately and fully reflect public sentiment, after following you four years, I am persuaded that the country is Wet. If your job is not fully and accurately done, then you are damp: for Wet sentiment in your magazine overtops...
...While assigning sincerity to the man, you took occasion to say that he also cherished a selfish motive in writing as he did: namely, to swell the coffers of the Christian Century. In that respect he is no more selfish than the Literary Digest, the Pathfinder, or many a damp American daily. Are they not using Prohibition as an advertising scheme to increase circulation? Yet I have never seen your paper take insinuating cracks at them...
...Benjamin Franklin was the champion U. S. snuffer. He startled European courts by the care he used in carrying the right colored box for every occasion. In Canada, the Royal Highlanders at mess pass around a ramshorn filled with dry snuff, of which every member and guest must partake. Damp snuff is highly-ground tobacco mixed with a little salt and, later, oil of wintergreen, rose, or a similar flavor. The advantage of chewing snuff over chewing tobacco is that snuff does not form so large a cud (word used by all snuff technicians), therefore requires less expectorating, is less...
...friends & relatives of 238 men in the mine. First to arrive manned the shaft elevators, went down into darkness. Tense minutes passed before they brought up more than 100 frightened, lucky men who had been near enough the shaft to race away from gaseous Death. Soon the fatal "black damp,"* cause and aftermath of most coalmine explosions, rushed up into the wooden shed, drove rescuers back gasping. They were frantic, unorganized. The company's president, William Ewing Tytus, its vice president, P. A. Coen and the mine's superintendent, Walter Hayden, were all down there, a mile...
Cause of the explosion was undetermined last week. The mine interior previously had been thought to be so damp it could not contain gas, and open torches were permitted the miners. Authorities last week guessed the explosion occurred when a coal slide caused sparks, which ignited gas gathered in a pocket. Such explosions in coalmines occur instantaneously. Therefore, and because coalmines are not equipped with compressed-air systems as are metal mines, "stench" warnings as recommended last week by the U S. Bureau of Mines (see p. 62) are not practicable for coalmines...