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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final count gave him only 97,000 of 271,000 votes cast, but a 2,000-vote plurality which assured North Dakota of two more years of sensational Governorship. In the same election North Dakota, a Dry State ever since she entered the union in 1889, went Wet by vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Democratic Drift | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...another Blue runner trailed him to the tape, while Hayden Channing and Henry March followed him in close order. Their times were respectively 27:16, 27:20, and 27:22. Fritz Rosengarten, the Princeton captain, succeeded in getting only the twelfth spot over the wet course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS LOSE TO YALE, BUT GET WIN OVER PRINCETON | 11/7/1936 | See Source »

...Lord Barrenstock and Epicene, "What's it to me that you have been "In your pursuit of interdicted joys "Seducer of a hundred little boys . . . ? "Tis not for these unsocial acts, not these "I wet my pen! . . . "But oh! your tie is crooked and I see "Too plain you had an eclair for your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...wet ball, a slippery field and no Davie Davis," ruefully explained Coach Howard Jones of Southern California, mourning the loss of his dynamic little quarterback, out with a torn rib cartilage in the first quarter. Coach Jones did not explain weak passing, bad kicking, silly generalship, as a defensive Washington State team played his would-be champions to a 0-to-0 standstill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

After the game, which was played on a wet field, he complained of a chill, but did not consider it serious. On Sunday his condition became alarming, and he was moved to the hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cadet Halfback Is Stricken With Pneumonia After Game | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

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