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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures were mostly of putty-colored seashores awash with pea-soup seas and peopled by puppet-like fishermen. Though the colors were dreary, they did make a wet, mysterious atmosphere, and Leonid's brush had time & again captured the textures of dry dunes and soaking sand flats, the hiss and sigh of retreating waves. Moreover, his drawing was as graceful as the brushwork of a Chinese calligrapher. Each composition was a looping arabesque in which men and boats were neatly knotted, carrying the gaze back and back to far-distant horizons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spacemaker | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...dawned wet, cold and foggy last week. Toward noon, Chicago Tribune staffers and WGN engineers gathered expectantly in Room 833 of the Tribune Tower. Outside the window they could see a shiny brass whistle, four feet high, ten inches in diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Whistle That Didn't | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Wet readings of X-rays last night indicated that Houston was not suffering from fractures of the skull and shoulder as first believed, but final word on these injuries will not be available until today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houston Suffers Injury as Auto Skids into Tree | 1/11/1950 | See Source »

...received none of the allotments for war victims. Le Monde's reporter described Duval's home: "One icy cell, then another. One large iron bed, a blanket thin like blotting paper. No sheets, no table, no chairs . . . The walls -when you touch them, your hands come away wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hate, Hate, Hate! | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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