Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line gang boss on a railroad electrification job, tells the story in his own words-a wisecracking lineman's lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like the piano playing of the villain, the plot is as "complicated as a six-track interlocking," contains as many trick effects as an electrical exposition. But when Author Haines writes straight description of wiring a low tunnel, his story delivers useful power...
...What liquid notes," said a wet and enthusiastic Radcliffe girl just before the water-logged piano gave up the ghost...
...also called Poet Eberhart "wet behind the ears," which means that he is young and docs not think and plan sufficiently. This is impossible as Eberhart spent about seven years writing this book, therefore it must be thought and planned sufficiently...
TIME described Poet Eberhart's verse, not Poet Eberhart, as "wet behind the ears," imputed to him the natural gifts as well as the verbal excesses of "a genuine ham poet...
Though such devices may be dangerous to animals in wet weather, they are a big boon to the U. S. farmer. Ordinary fences are expensive, require several strands of wire, wear out quickly. If equipped with barbs, as most of them are, they occasionally injure animals severely. Electric fences can be put up at about a third the cost of the old-type fence and the operating expense is negligible-usually not more than 18? a month. The better fences give short intermittent shocks, so that animals will not "freeze" to the wire, as they might if the current were...