Word: damping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hillmen and lowlanders in the farthest reaches of the U. S., to the nearest of his friends this week in the damp June heat of Washington, the name Franklin Roosevelt meant many things-interesting, exciting, even dangerous things-but no one thing they could all agree on or put a name...
They include sponges, jellyfish, earthworms, brittle stars, crustaceans, insects, spiders, molluscs, squid, marine worms, hydroids, siphonophores, sea pens, cteno-phores, corallines, myriapods, balanoglos-sids, ascidians, fish. There are also two kinds of luminous plants-certain bacteria and fungi. These are responsible for the dim shining of damp wood and stale meat, the ghastly glow occasionally seen on human corpses...
...heart beat. My hand shook a little. Suppose that he were one of those sharp, kindly-savage Americans who bark like dogs, sit in their shirt sleeves, curse and swear, chew the damp stubs of cigars." It is, however, only Alfred Noyes. But the novelist's journalistic boss turns up soon enough, steers him around to see the Pope lying in state, coaches him on how to open his articles with a bang...
Originally scheduled to be played on Riverside Field, the first contest of the annual two game Crimson-Boston University baseball series will instead, be played on the Soldiers Field diamond this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Damp weather has transformed the Nickerson diamond into a wading pond...
...weather will quit being so typical of New England, Harvard should have a successful tennis season this year. Blessed with a number of seasoned veterans in his second year as Varsity Coach, Jack Barnaby has been hampered by cold winds and damp courts. And the matches scheduled last weekend with Columbia and Pennsylvania were unfortunately rained...