Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch-speaking Boers who trekked once more into the hinterland when Britain conquered the Transvaal. Eldoret has one of the British Empire's highest railway stations (7,000 ft.), just north of the Equator. Only 100 mi. to the southwest is vast Lake Victoria. The climate is bracing but wet. The blacks outnumber the whites more than...
...collection contains a volume, devoted to Lincoln, his family, his Cabinet, and the persons and places with which he was intimately associated. Not only do they possess historical significance, but they are some of the first instances of wet plate photography as practised by Matthew B. Brady...
...months Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has fought the fire of Communismin China by wetting down the ground with his New Life Movement. "Water," he quotes, " always flows over a wet surface; while fire goes wherever it is dry.'' Last week westerners were reading the free English translation of his Outline of The New Life Movement made by his U. S.-educated, banged-browed wife, youngest daughter of China's famed Soong family...
Thusly wrote the SHOGOLA ALOBA's concert manager. If the Fogg lays a wet blanket on his approaches, we might perhaps try the Democratic National Convention...
...backfield who took all honors. Fred Moseley proved himself the most promising back on the Harvard squad. His running was the best and most consistent of any man who saw action, and his passing showed very definite promise, especially when it is remembered that he was flipping a soaking wet ball. He is by long odds the best chance for an all-purpose back Cambridge has seen for quite some time...