Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last, however, the shark was caught, but as it was being hauled in, the fishermen were shocked speechless with surprise -for at the end of the hook was not a shark, but a Lagosian woman whose long, wet hair was matted about her face. She was a fish hooks seller in the village . . . and part of her body was sharklike, the other part human...
...Francisco, who is to the West's banking what the Rockies are to its topography. Mr. Giannini's Transamerica Corp., once the biggest bank holding company in the world, is now being transformed into an investment trust because A. P. doesn't have to wet his finger more than once to see which way the wind blows. A. P.'s Bank of America has 492 branches in California. His First National Bank of Oregon has 42, First National of Nevada has twelve. There is a Giannini banking chain starting in Washington...
Last week SEC and the Federal Power Commission simultaneously laid a big wet blanket over the second situation. SEC announced that no former members of its staff would be allowed to argue before it or assist at hearings in connection with cases which were pending during their SEC employment without first obtaining permission. FPC announced that no for mer members could appear before it or assist at hearings within one year after resigning. By no means uncommon, similar rules are already in effect for the Treasury Department and the Federal Communications Commission, though not for the Federal Trade...
READING THE SPIRIT-Richard Eberhart-Oxford University Press ($2.50). Wet-behind-the-ears poems of unusual intensity, sponsored by English Anthologist Michael Roberts (The Faber Book of Modern Verse). Poet Eberhart is a young Minnesotan who graduated from Dartmouth in 1926, bummed around the world to St. John's College, Cambridge, now teaches English at St. Mark's School. Author of at least one unforgettable poem (The Groundhog), Poet Eberhart is one of the rarest human types known-a genuine ham poet...
...bowels and in that way stops intestinal ailments. But, being everlastingly inquisitive. Dr. Edith Haynes of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, a home economics student who became a bacteriologist in order to learn what happened in her pots, continued to experiment, found that sores kept sopping wet with a water solution of pectin* healed with extraordinary speed...