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Word: moistly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Large yellow patches that appeared yesterday morning on the ceiling of Dunster House Dining Room were explained later in the day by following a moist trail that led to the House Secretary's office on the third floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Flooded By Trickling Tap In House Office | 10/19/1946 | See Source »

...truck ground to a halt on Rio's pleasant Rua Bartholomeu Mitre, children looked up from their play. After the workmen had unloaded the dark, moist sand into the street and gone away, the kids swarmed over the sandpile, pelting each other with sand and small pebbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Sandpile | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Black walnuts, gathered at harvest time, cracked at 627 Ibs. But after 135 days in warm moist earth their breaking point fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crack! | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...Beer & Bicycles. Confidence in Holland's future pervades the moist spring air. The Royal Dutch Airlines is resuming biweekly flights to New York in a few weeks. Trains between Amsterdam and The Hague, which last year took seven hours to make a trip, are back on their old schedules and running every hour. The famed Heineken Brewery at Amsterdam is opening again. Philips, Europe's greatest exporters of electric bulbs and radio equipment, is operating at 60% of capacity, expects to hit 100% soon. The Dutch, who use bicycles as Americans use autos, may have to wait until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Woman in the House | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Chicago's Federal Court last week, moist-eyed Alberto Vargas asked a judge to set aside his unwitting agreement with Esquire's president, David Smart, and claimed $250,000 in damages, $200,000 of it for Esquire's use of an unsigned Varga girl. Vargas also hinted at something closely resembling mental cruelty. "Uncle Dave" Smart, he said, had urged him to live in a style that would "exude success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Price Varga Girls? | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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