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Word: moistly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...inflammatory job, pleading for intervention, sneering at our reluctance to go in. America, still hesitant to plunge into the burning ruins of Europe, was compared to Pontius Pilate, callous and cowardly, evading a responsibility. ... It played to capacity audiences, which are traditionally undemonstrative here [Washington], and sent them away moist-eyed. Most . . . were swept off their feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Debate | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Alkalizers. "The blood of a healthy person is no more in need of 'alkalizing' . . . than the eyes need an eyewash to keep them moist; with the common cold or grippe and . . . constipation, there is no accumulation of acid. . . . Fatigue, a 'dark brown' taste, a foggy feeling, jitters or headache are not to the slightest extent caused by 'acids in the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Home Companion | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Here is the House. Vag feels his body submerged in moist warmth, luscious warmth. Walt is there too, in slippers and pajamas. Vag puts on slippers and pajamas. Hot chocolate and cookies, Tchaikowsky's Fifth Symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

...from being an enthusiastic inhabitant of fire, as the ancients believed, the salamander must be moist, dies if it is even thoroughly dried out. Though no fire-eater, the lizard-like little creature is, however, something of a devil. He secretes in his skin a milky poison which causes most of his potential enemies to leave him severely alone. This skin poison is thought to be harmless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Devil | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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