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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came out of his shower, dripping wet, Peroy noticed the culprit running out of the room. Without waiting to dress he gave chase through the corridors of the Indoor Athletic Building and shouting for aid succeeded in getting nearby students to continue the pursuit. An officer finally caught up with the crowd of pursuers just in time to arrest the culprit after he had led them a merry chase down Mt. Auburn Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 STUDENTS CHASE CULPRIT WHO STEALS $63 FROM PEROY | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...from a passage dealing with Earwicker's dream of a night out). Using a favorite device, he suggests that Anna Livia is the River Liffey by slyly punning on the names of other rivers: "he gave her the tigris eye," "rubbing the mouldaw stains," "And the dneepers of wet and the gangres of sin in it"-for the Tigris, Moldau, Dnieper and Ganges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Chicago 5, Cleveland 1; St. Louis 6, Detroit 7; Philadelphia at New York postponed, rain. Washington at Boston postponed, cold weather and wet grounds...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

...execution" was to take place forthwith, and so Billy's neck was forcibly put on the block; whereupon he was struck with a wet cord that had been chilled, very conveniently, to more or less the temperature of a steel blade. Billy's simpleminded brain reacted most realistically to this mock execution, and it telegraphed the rest of his body that he was "done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...little top floor room on Manhattan's 14th Street, Painter John Sloan and Walter Pach joined in bestowing on hulking, frog-faced Diego Rivera the title of "People's Artist of America." The ceremony and the investiture were of little avail. Rivera never again laid brush to wet plaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rivera's Life | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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