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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wendell L Willkie, 58, and son Philip, 29, Indiana state legislator, were badly shaken up and bruised when their car, headed home to Rushville from Washington, skidded on a wet highway near Fairview, Ohio and overturned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...fence, and squatted on the ground where one of his tractors had just passed. "Everything's good," he said, feeling the soil. "You can tell it's time for planting when you can sit on the ground before 10 a.m. and not get your butt cold or wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Planting Time | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...mistress and his best friend are killed in an auto smashup after spending the weekend together. Matador Bello, knowing in his bones that both have betrayed him, feels uncontrollable fear for the first time. At the gate of the Cuenca bull ring, his mouth is dry, his palms wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scan with Your Life | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...finds the pleasant mouth of the nurse pressed close to his ear. She is quietly calling his name. Outside to the east, the sky is still graying, but this does not bother the efficient nurse. She likes to Get Things Done. She takes to paticut's temperature with a wet mouth thermometer. He goes back to sleep. At eight brakfast appears on a large tray; it is good and substantial and makes the student drowsy again...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Circling the Square | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...combination of April showers and subsequent wet courts forced postponement of the varsity tennis team's Saturday match with Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tennis Postponed | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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