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Word: drench (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direction of a young SEC lawyer named Peter H. ("Handyman") Nehemkis Jr., surveys will be made in 561 towns and cities. SEC itself will concentrate on ten "representative" cities.* Already well under way, the job is to be finished by June 1. Said Jerome Frank: "We want to drench ourselves in facts." A sample question small businessmen will be asked: What per cent of your inventories have you borrowed against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Drenching | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Butter barrages aimed at student waiters were until recently quite popular in the Yale Commons; oneing a butter-tosser with six glasses heckled waiter retaliated by drench of milk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BUTTER SLINGERS OUTLAWED IN YALE COMMONS | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Woven into a fantastic prophesy of the course of life in the next century, "Things to Come" offers a horse drench of the bold philosophy of H. G. Wells and a glimpse into the Wellsian Utopia: a thought-provoking experience...

Author: By C. E. G. jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/12/1936 | See Source »

...guile that it is the funniest sequence in the picture. Meanwhile, detectives who have been studying the misdeeds of the dead twin come to apprehend the live one. A motor boat chase (with sirens, which are probably the most important single contribution of sound to the cinema) serves to drench the protagonists and clear up their misconceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 14, 1932 | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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