Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle, Wash...
...result of this specializing, Peter Scott at 29 probably knows more about wild ducks and geese-and paints them better in oils-than any living artist. For the last five years his home has been an old lighthouse on The Wash, a place of inlets and tidal marshes on the Lincolnshire coast; where he makes pets of the wild geese. Ornithologist as well as artist, Scott last year spent four months around the Caspian Sea in a vain search for a rare red-breasted goose...
...Reader Bliss curb his gross humming ; the Nylon girls each night wash out their stockings...
Last week RCA-NBC television station W2XBS, after a not-too-impressive month of scheduled telecasting of variety, short plays, films and sport to the 900-odd sets in its 50-mile radius, announced that Referee Donovan's kindly wash was coming true. Its engineers had proved, in telecasting the six-day bike race at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, that television could be transmitted over ordinary telephone wire. Engineers had considered coaxial cable, a copper wire threaded through separators inside a copper tube, the only practical ground conductor for the complex television signal. Since coaxial cable costs...
...from the sea. The waves piled in on the tide, foamy against the rocks. She walked over the gray-green downs to the bluff. One by one the lobster men putted in toward the harbor in a single snaky line. Later the sim thinned out into a crimson wash in the west. A slight wispy fog made up. As she walked homeward along the shore around the harbor, a moon began to rise. It appeared diffused through the misty, foggy veil. Off, a little to itself, a new sloop was anchored. It rocked gently in the wash, its spar swaying...