Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Track conditions were very unfavorable, the slight rain immediately preceding the meet making the ground much too wet for any records. Neither team made any exceptional times. In view of the fact that this was the first contest in which 1923 men have ever competed as a unit, the results were fairly good. Andover, though having less individual stars, has had more experience working together and achieved the victory from consistent second and third-place getting and superiority in the field events...
...against English High School. Both teams have been handicapped by lack of outdoor practice, due to the late spring and continued rains, but the yearlings especially have a good fund of material from which to select a sextet. Trials were to have been held last Wednesday, but rain and wet courts prevented, so that the men have been chosen as a result of the matched yesterday. The tentative lineup and order of play for the game today is as follows: M. Duane, A. D. Knox. G. C. Guild, B. Davis, R. W. Hoskins, M. Grabau...
Because of a wet field the game today with New Hampshire State College has been postponed until tomorrow at 4 o'clock...
...gasoline is drawn into the Fuelizer chamber by a small pipe leading from below the butterfly valve, is circulated at high velocity in the chamber by the explosion caused by the spark plug in the chamber, and then goes through a small opening into the manifold where the usual wet and cold mixture from the carburetor is converted into superheated gas which explodes entirely upon ignition...
Today, when every morning's paper brings news of towns that have been dry for generations landsliding into the wet column; when 2.75 per cent, and 3.50 per cent beers are being upheld by local courts throughout the country; When the workings of the Anti-Saloon League are being investigated by the New York Assembly, we find Mr. Barleycorn exhibiting the same old kick that made him famous...