Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland), foreign military men were apt to ask embarrassing questions about the size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar Nicholas I and Boer General Christian De Wet all failed to force Britain to do, Adolf Hitler may yet accomplish...
...dawn Peter Corbett, junior partner of Johnson, Bellinger & Corbett, rose drunkenly from the clammy garage floor. He was wet, grease-smeared, his head ached and he was sick at his stomach. His wife and baby lay huddled asleep in the back seat of the Austin. In a junior bed, flanked by the garden roller and a sandbox, slept Phyllis, 6, John 3. The nurse lay rolled up in an eiderdown beside...
Still tense and tingling is Odets' study of a bewildered, frustrated, dreaming, moodily rebellious Bronx family, caught in economic toils like wet fish in a net. Secret of the play's power is that it is neither orthodox realism nor orthodox social drama, but a series of startling angle shots, a kind of vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts...
...seasons, this is the most baffling and uncertain. For a day, spring comes. And the snows melt. And the world is wet with winter's waning blood. Another morrow, and the wind shrieks again, and the cold rains descend, pelting back the vernal equinox to a more remote calendar page. Hour examinations, like so many scalping Comanches, are taking their bi-yearly toll. Concluding winter athletics are vieing desperately with commencing spring activities. Class elections are pitting friend against friend, while honor, influence, and politics set a dizzy pace. Seniors are searching wearily for a life-long job, and many...
...Powder Brookline, N.H. Fair Good 9 Dry Canaan, N.H. Fair Good 20 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Fair Good 105 27 Powder Conway, N.H. Fair Good 34 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Fair Good 20 10 Powder Franconia Notch, N.H. Fair Good 65 27 Powder Fryeburg, Me. Fair Good 46 Wet Greenfield, Mass. Fair Poor 5 Soft Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 36 Powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 35 Powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Fair 31 Frozen granular Lancaster, N.H. Fair Fair 24 1 new wet Lincoln, N.H. Fair Good 38 3 damp over 35 powder Littleton, N.H. Fair Good 14 10 Powder...