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Word: moistly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloom if tended by wicked persons. From its structure, I can readily believe the first to have been true. As to the second, my wife and the children take care of all the plants in our garden. Cut off the end and plant the cutting in some warm moist earth in your office and see if it will bloom for you. RALPH B. BOYDEN Key West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...could form. The ice would be blown away. Last week at Akron, the Goodrich company announced that a Lockheed Vega and a Douglas mail plane equipped with Dr. Geer's overshoes had been flown for the past four months under worst conditions (just below 32% in moist atmosphere). The planes' flying performance was unaffected. Geer overshoes are to be shown the public for the first time at the National Aircraft Show in Detroit, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Overshoes | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Sequoia sempervirens is the scientific name for redwood. It grows only along a short section of the northern California coast, thriving in the cool, moist air. A relative, but no longer cut commercially, is Sequoia gigantea or "Big Tree." Mature redwoods are also Big Trees-300 ft. high, 30 ft. through the butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Forest Merger | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...That's unfortunate. I don't think I'm a Wet. You might better say?moist. ... If Prohibition proves unenforceable, this Commission should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unborn Blossom | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...candidate in Massachusetts should attain a comfortable majority in November. In the west, Senator Walsh of Montana, with a brilliant career while wrapped in the toga, faces quite likely defeat by an inferior candidate, purely because the latter is wringing wet. Rolph of California will bear a moist gubernatorial standard to victory against a dry Democrat, according to past elections in a Republican state. New York, Wisconsin and others are already damp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST DAYS | 9/20/1930 | See Source »

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