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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they don't register) to translate any combination of digits into an easily remembered phrase. Thus the number of the CIA-351-1100-becomes AH ME, CUBA BAY, OY. The New Yorker who wants to call A.T. & T. to complain about all-digit dialing dials GO WAG A WET YOYO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market Place: New Products | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

About 200 enthusiastic 'Cliffies have been riding the bus each day, according to Harmon, but twice that number are needed for the service to break even. HSA organizers are increasing publicity and praying to cold, wet weather to encourage more girls to take...

Author: By Mary L. Wissler, | Title: 'Cliffe Will Subsidize Trial Bus Runs | 2/6/1964 | See Source »

Stephen H. Clark '65 of Lowell House and Cambridge, Mass., had an unexpected plunge into the Ammonoosue River in New Hampshire over the weekend. According to a story in yesterday's Boston Traveler, Clark was "dripping wet" when U.S. Forest Rangers found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Was He Surprised! | 2/5/1964 | See Source »

While sloppy, wet, and generally miserable weather continues to inundate Cambridge for the next few months, 'Cliffies will no longer have to arrive in class with their long hair damp and stringy. A general metamorphosis of the Radcliffe image may begin today when the Harvard Student Agencies starts its long-awaited bus service from the Radcliffe quad to Harvard Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spoiled 'Cliffies Get Bus Service | 2/3/1964 | See Source »

...putting a death wish into his life. T. S. Eliot once said that to think of Dryden dying was like thinking of an empire falling. To see Dylan Thomas dying on the stage is like watching a once raging fire being extinguished. Even the alcoholic cause of death, a "wet brain," chillingly suggests the dank dark extinction of the light of the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dance of Death | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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