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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the flood-fighting pace quickened in Terre Haute, the high water receded rapidly upstream at Peru, where a deluge poured over the top of a levee Wednesday night and forced 675 people to flee...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Britain, Greece, Turkey Discuss Plans for Cypriot Independence; National Guardsmen Battle Flood | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

...conditioned, with the air being washed, filtered, and run between electrically charged plates, to prevent disintegration of the books. The temperature is kept constant, and the walls are fireproof. In fact the library is so carefully constructed that the only possible danger is that at some time a water pipe might leak and inundate the stacks. To guard against this remote possibility, the library has a number of leak detectors, protruding from the walls, and troughs beneath the pipes to catch any excess water...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Houghton Collection Provides Treasure Trove for Scholars | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

...taking out approximately 30 to 40 percent of the water from the small dog's heart used and then allowing it to soak in glycerol, the doctors lowered its freezing point to below minus eight degrees Centigrade. They kept the heart at minus eight degrees for all hour, rehydrated and rewarmed it, and placed it in the neck of a large dog, where it revived within 15 minutes and beat for an extended period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School-M.I.T. Team Chills, Reactivates Heart of Small Dog | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

Gregg managed to pull himself from the water, and he and a fourth companion who did not slip through the ice, William J. Courtenay 2D, went to seek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Skaters Survive Mystic Lake Plunge | 2/10/1959 | See Source »

Nylon Rifle. Remington Arms will put on sale a .22-cal. rifle made of nylon except for a steel barrel and bolt assembly. The rifle is one-third lighter than present models, is more durable and not hurt by water. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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