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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guffey Act as a National Coal Commissioner. A Guffey man, he is extremely dictatorial, rules the commission, whose majority supports him, with an iron hand. Whenever this backing has wavered (and it has done so frequently over patronage, office furniture and Senatorial meddling) B. C. C. has spluttered like wet coal. Last month a squabble reached such heat that Chairman Hosford went so far as to tender his resignation, which President Roosevelt refused to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lump, Egg, Pea | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Gifford Pinchot, elected Pennsylvania's Governor despite the "works" from Pennsylvania Power & Light, found a job for Mr. Beamish. As secretary of the Commonwealth, Mr. Beamish had plenty of opportunities to state his views about the public utilities. During the campaign of 1934 he wet his finger, held it up in the wind and hastily became a Democrat. So when Governor George Earle set up a new Public Utility Commission early this year there was no reason why Mr. Beamish should not be one of the commissioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Beamish's Little Joke | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...very cold dry snow, the waxing surface should be extremely smooth; while on wet snow it should be comparatively rough, as a smooth surface will "suck" on wet snow causing very slow running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS FLOCK TO NORTHLAND . . . . . . . . SNOW VARIES AT SKI CENTERS | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...wet spring snow (having melted over a considerable period of time): Ostvye "kilster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS FLOCK TO NORTHLAND . . . . . . . . SNOW VARIES AT SKI CENTERS | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...real art of waxing comes in combining various forms of waxes. For instance, on a long tour the snow at the starting point is fairly wet, but a few hundred feet above it is freezing. For this one can put on an original coating of "medium" allow it to cool, and cover it with a very thin coating of "mixed," the "mix" will glide well over the dry snow at the beginning of the run down, and will wear off soon after reaching the wet snow, then the undercoating of "medium" will serve its purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS FLOCK TO NORTHLAND . . . . . . . . SNOW VARIES AT SKI CENTERS | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

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