Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived 1 min. 10 sec. after the beginning of the eighth round. As Braddock took a wobbling step forward, Louis planted a right on the point of the champion's sagging jaw. The peculiar, wet-sounding detonation of what experts considered one of the hardest punches ever delivered in a prize ring told spectators on the rim of the park exactly what had happened. While Louis stood in a neutral corner, not bothering to look back. Referee Tommy Thomas counted ten over the unconscious ex-champion...
...Representative Lister Hill, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Woodring last week dispatched a chit. He recommended repeal of a law passed in 1901 which forbids the sale of beer, wine or intoxicating beverages on Army premises. This, Mr. Woodring explained, was not a Wet-Dry issue, but a question of discrimination against the Army. Sailors and marines can now buy beer at their canteens ashore. Said he: "The repeal of this law restores the Army to parity with the Navy...
Nobody remembers his name but oldtime vacationers at Atlantic City, N. J. ("Playground of the World") say that the resort's first sand sculptor was a young artist who showed up on the beach one day in the 1890's and molded from a mountain of wet sand a lifelike figure of a scantily-clad young woman clutching a baby. He labeled the result "Cast up by the Sea." The piece so affected passersby on the boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers...
Figures carved from wet sand are vulnerable to rain, wind and tide. Long ago the sand sculptors learned to mix one part of cement with three or four parts of beach, and their creations will withstand two or three years of hail or high water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week...
Capping the rise of the wet grassy stretches is the tall Civil War monument. Around the crest are a siege gun and a captured tank. And lettered on the base of the column is an inscription barely visible through the dark of the rain...