Word: wading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown has labor been persuaded to process it, for jute must soak in stagnant water, must be hand-worked by natives who wade waist-deep in the stinking mess...
...Coach Alonzo Stiner and his Northwest farmers were not the least bit awed by Wallace Wade's Blue Devils. With Don Durdan, a left-handed right halfback, and Bob Dethman, a right-handed left halfback, carrying out clever hocus-pocus despite a drizzling rain, they fooled the Devils, scored the biggest upset since Columbia tripped Stanford in 1934. Score...
Once about two years ago I asked my Uncle Wade O'Dell at Liberty, S.C., if he had ever heard the Hanks story. He began to tell me what he had heard and as he was talking my Aunt Bettie came into the room. She said with indignation, "I'm not going to hear that story another time," and she went off to prayer meeting...
Russell Burdick Wade, fireman, third class, Houston...
...Same year, TIME-covered Helen Hull Jacobs lost the tennis singles at Forest Hills. In 1937, TIME-Covered Pitcher Bobby Feller hurt his arm, and was mostly idle until July. Same year, TIME-covered Baron von Cramm lost to Donald Budge at Forest Hills. Same year, TIME-covered Wallace Wade's football team-Duke-lost the Southern championship to North Carolina. In 1938, TIME-covered Golfer Johnny Goodman, favorite to win the British Amateur, was put out in the early rounds, and booted both his Walker Cup matches-to boot. In 1939, TIME-covered Tom Harmon was stopped cold...