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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worker bee to her last rendezvous with social security. Her wings are torn; her last load of nectar is nothing much; she falls short of the hive. "Just at the time the youngsters at the hive are coming out for school, her grip relaxes and she falls into the wet grass below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bee Around Us | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...bicycle skidded on Massachusetts Avenue near Waterhouse Street. Lola M. Lloyd '62, who was knocked unconscious for a few minutes, said afterwards, "I don't know whether I slipped on a trolley track or was hit by a car; but I think my wheel just got caught in a wet track...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Student Cyclists In Hospital After Accidents in Rain | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...face and figure are unfamiliar. But this week, when the black-haired, violet-eyed beauty strides across two pages of the movie trade papers, dressed in nothing but a wet white silk shirt, Hollywood will get the word. "R.B."-the modest monogram on the shirt's breast pocket-tells it all. Russell Birdwell, Hollywood's busiest huckster, is on the job. After a brief dry spell trying to direct pictures (The Girl in the Kremlin, Flying Devils), and a few months of promoting such inanimate products as automatic laundries, "the Bird" is back at his appointed task: fabricating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rally Round the Flack, Boys | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...wet-haired, chlorinated "mermaids" of Moors Hall wave our "coveted Radcliffe Swim Marathon crown" in protest against the article which appeared in Thursday morning's CRIMSON. The morning after our jubilant swimmers brought the news of our victory, we read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPLASH | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...sold its dry mix of meat and grain and Ken-L-Ration produced a canned horsemeat mixture. More dogs are fed by the dry foods-Gaines (General Foods), Ralston Purina Dog Chow, Alber's Friskies (Carnation Co.), Gro-Pup (Kellogg Co.). But more poundage is sold in canned "wet" varieties, which made up 65% of the total dog-food weight bought last year, outsold every canned vegetable, used more tin cans than any other product outside of oil and beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Oh, for a Dog's Life | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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