Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day had come-I could apply for export permit. The Finance Ministry said I must have a certificate of export from the Cultural Ministry on four framed water colors which were the only possessions I had bought in Czechoslovakia. I blew up, antagonized officers, apologized, went to Cultural Ministry, got new special appraisal of pictures, more witnesses, more bribes, another certificate, countersign-ers, paid export duty, received permit, entertained customs while packing, paid customs. It was pay, pay, pay-and then it was all over. "The only thing I learned from all this is how to distinguish between Communists...
Biggest difference between the present automatic washer and the new machine is the drying system. The tank of the Rand washer is lined with rubber. To dry clothes, the water and air are sucked out by a motor-driven pump, creating a vacuum which 1) causes the rubber to collapse, squeezing the clothing dry, and 2) lowers the boiling point of the water that remains until it turns into steam and passes...
...problem is still baffling. No matter how massive the screen (one of the biggest: 65 by 50 ft.), or how super-powerful the water-cooled projection equipment, a good many people have to sit almost a thousand feet from the screen, and have trouble seeing details. The ozoners had not yet found a way around that...
Action in the last quarter slowed down a bit but George Hanford's Freshmen kept their heads above the water and finished up with a safe margin. Rick Hudner chalked up five goals, Bill Plissner and Dick Post got three each, and Ed Thayer picked up the remaining...
Colombo, a Navy veteran, was pitched into the water when an carlock on his single scull snapped, thus turning the whole boat bottom up. He pushed the stricken craft to the shore, righted it, and, refusing all offers of assistance, paddled home to the Weld Boat House...