Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand, in its customary observation from its basement window, announces that there will be early showers today, followed by fair weather with light westerly winds and a rising temperature. Hence we are in a quandary. What shall be the vein of the annual Class Day editorial? Shall it be wet humor or dry humor, shall we indulge in a little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats and departed, leaving it to the office boy to decide which...
...courts might almost be paraphrased into "saving the cities from labor." To arouse men to rioting and then to try to restrain them, is rather like a small boy who skates as close as possible to a danger sign and then says he did not mean to get wet...
...What part did climatic conditions play in the rise of Mohammedanism? Why do regions having an equatorial climate have two wet and two dry seasons...
...leaf which he had wet in his mouth now had an entirely different appearance. Senor Alvarotez went up to it out of curiosity, looked at it closely, then uttered a startled ejaculation. There were plainly visible on the wet leaf the characters of the Inca alphabet...
Frightful tension follows. Who recovered? Whose ball is it? On what line? Wet palms are pressed against trouser legs. How about...