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Word: moister (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlow again," said Hu Flung Huey ocC. "I am afraid the Cloud-busters have Moran the ball than we have. They must Seymour from there than Moister people can from the third Storey. They look like a Boyd up there. I hope they can Hadley get down. Last week I hurt my Hibbard it's all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Flings 'Em | 9/26/1942 | See Source »

...there evergreens in the South, oaks in the North? Botanist William Spinner Cooper of the University of Minnesota studied fossil tree pollens in peat, concluded that "in America the climate following the glacial epoch was warm and dry, with a return to a cooler moister climate during the last few thousand years." Thus the cone-bearing evergreens of the Southern U.S. are relics of the glacial invasion (which halted at the Ohio River), and the North's oaks and other hardwoods are relics of the warm postglacial period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why . . .? | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...this treasure you have stored for me, in my particular heaven." She closed with the most famous line of her career, from her early play Sunday: "That's all there is-there isn't any more." Her voice was not quite so resonant as usual, and somewhat moister. Most of the time she was bawling like a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Ethel's 40th | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Yale barely nosed out Williams for third place in the field of 12 colleges. Competition was close throughout the whole meet, but Eddie Gignac, diminutive all-around Kanone from the Black Panther squad, was far above the rest of the boys in winning the Ski Moister trophy, awarded to the best four-event skier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middlebury Skiers Edge Out Harvard in Placid Tourney | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

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