Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the Potomac freight yards just outside of Washington. D. C. last week rolled Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. Off the tent cars came rain-wet canvas to dry in the sun. lest spontaneous combustion destroy what labor combustion had left of the Greatest Show on Earth. Representative Robert Low Bacon of Long Island surveyed the sorry scene, declared through G. O. P.'s publicity office: "Not even the great Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus can compete with the circus the New Deal is now giving...
...University, the British-owned Saichuen power station, cutting off all air-raid alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth Sun Yat-sen Memorial Auditorium
...Painting with watercolor paints on wet plaster...
...from Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...
...mosaics have a peculiar quality to them which means that a special process to reproduce this quality is needed. In making the great works of art, the cartoon was first painted on the plaster and the cubes were pressed into it while still wet. The artists engaged in this project were far advanced in technique. They understood well the value of gold in their backgrounds for an effect of space filled with light, and they learned to incline all the cubes slightly forward to meet directly the line of sight from below, thus gaining the utmost in clearness and brilliance...