Word: washout
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...they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond, where they played with worn-out canvas gloves and three damaged bats, was equally reassuring. Then the boys saw something else. A washout had completely carried away the ballast from under a section of track on the nearby Erie R. R. right-of-way! Aware that an 8:10 commuting train was soon due, the boys pulled off their raincoats, ran down the track waving them wildly. The engineer said that...
...matter of fact--and am one who agrees with you that if any righteousness existed in the basic causes, conduct, or results of the world war, it is not easily deciphered and less easily attributed more to one than another nation. The whole thing was very much of a washout, and I think you will find more ex-service men in agreement with your general trend of thought in the premises than you had imagined. The type of critical analysis which your editorial suggests is one which should provide a reasonable immunity to the ballyhoo which inevitably will accompany...
...seen, and yet when the acting in at its height, the camera man deserts the stage and uses up much of the Company's film in taking pictures of rain drops, and rain clouds, and often of sheets of rain which could only have been caused by a washout in some overtaxed rain shower machine. After all it does rain in Wisconsin and Cambridge, too. And they have mud in Russia. Besides this precipitation the stage hands are constantly showing off other wonders of cinematic engineering, giving a very Californian air to the island of Pago Pago in the gulf...
...double handicap--a dissyllabic name and a thin, closed vowel (i) with which to start. Consequently, we cannot rival either the quick bark of "Yale!" or the slow sonority of "Harvard!" From the standpoint of effective vocalization "Prince-ton!" is what our British cousins would call a fair washout. What to do about...
...Harvard golf team, recovering from its defeat at the hands of Princeton on May 12, administered an 8 to 1 drubbing to the Dartmouth golfers at Weston on Saturday afternoon. Stewart of Dartmouth prevented a Green washout by downing C. L. Stover...