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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cold-blooded, almost brutal. But who was it that hurried into the locker building the moment practice was closed, ran upstairs to the doctor's room where the boy was lying down being bandaged, put one hand on his shoulder, gently ran his other hand across the boy's wet brow and remarked 'That's not perspiration, son, that's sweat'? Who was it that left a suffering boy with tears of happiness welling in his eyes because he had exonerated himself in the eyes of the man whose good opinion meant so much to him? That was the real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spirit of Percy Haughton to Help Crimson Forces Against Tiger Today | 11/8/1924 | See Source »

...practically a veteran eleven which opposes the Crimson, and one that is confident of victory. There will probably be no recurrence of the wet field which hampered the Purple's running attack. Whether they will have the highly developed aerial game they displayed last year will remain to be seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WATCH GLENNON" MAY BE WATCHWORD AGAIN THIS YEAR | 10/17/1924 | See Source »

...kick-off moved to centre of field (from 40-yd. line), or, on wet grounds, "to a point directly behind" ?in which case the receiving team may lie in wait no less than ten yards away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Football | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...wet field, the slippery ball, and the strongest scrub defense that Line Coaches Kellison and Fenwick could build up by reenforcing the second University with the most powerful men from the first year squad together were not able to stop the charging Virginia backs using the new offensive plays planned for the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Scrimmages Show Virginia Team Has Potent Backs and Feeble Forwards, Says Old Dominion Correspondent | 9/25/1924 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, General Dawes stood in the wet outside the Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt., posed with his famed pipe for the benefit of patient photographers. Before the cameras clicked, he made a remark. Three Manhattan dailies recorded that remark thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE PRESS: Expurgated | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

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