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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kupferman's new paintings tell very little about their squirmy wet subject matter; they jumble and reassemble it to make complex and technically brilliant designs. The abstractions had started with careful drawings of shells, starfish and seaweed that he and his five-year-old daughter found on the beach at Provincetown. He took to thumbing through scientific books illustrated with diagrams of tentacled polyps, and the nervous systems of sea worms and cross sections of jellyfish, because his wife made him throw out all the sea life he had brought home. "The house smelled like low tide," she complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wet & Dry | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Pitcher Ralph Hymans is due to get his first chance on the mound today for the Varsity. He was scheduled for work on the vacation trip, but the fates had nothing but wet grounds in store for him, as he was washed out in Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Baseball Team Takes On Devens Today | 4/15/1948 | See Source »

...Gold wet his lips at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and at precisely 7:25 o'clock emptied his seventh bottle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lucre-Lured Student Guzzles Seven Quarts of Beer in Afternoon Spree | 4/14/1948 | See Source »

...Saturday's cold winds give way to something more than wet grounds and rain this morning, the varsity baseball team will meet Boston College here at 4 o'clock today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine to Meet B.C. Today in Delayed Fray | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Navy power and Maryland precision ruled the fields below the bison-Dixon line last week and left a Harvard lacrosse squad smarting under 13-3 and 11-0 defeats. A contest with Drexel at Philadelphia, the one the Crimson seemed most likely to win, was cancelled because of wet grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maryland, Navy Crush Out-Classed Stickmen | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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