Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near dead-heat finishes in the distance races provided most of the excitement in the long and wet afternoon. In the two-mile, Bill Crain and Eddie Meehan far outdistanced their opposition and walked across the finish line together. Holy Cross's Tom Noering nosed out Meehan in the half-mile, though both runners were given times of 1:58.9, surprisingly good under the miserable conditions. John Ogden and Crain also did well, leading teammate John Miller in an easy sweep of the mile. Holy Cross won the 440 and the mile relay...
...lines and scattered smears of color that they presage modern abstractions. "Nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her." Cézanne wrote. Hour after hour, facing the warm vistas of Provence, his eye sounded the depths of nature, and, dipping his brush into his wet colors, he deposited the traces of color that are the record of a contact with nature more direct than most men ever know or envisage...
When the 914 came out, there was already a host of smaller office copiers for sale. Evanston's American Photocopy Equipment Co. and Eastman Kodak Co. with its Verifax dominated the "wet copying'' field, which uses chemical developers; Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. had its fast-selling Thermo-Fax, a dry method that uses heat from an infra-red lamp to form an image on specially coated papers. But the Xerox machine had a special appeal. It is a dry method that needs no chemicals, can duplicate anything from grease pencil to ballpoint pen, though it is more...
...grand follies. Now she paints in somber tones the squalid miseries of peace. If there is no simple single reason why a nation had to starve and die. she makes clear that there was more to it than the fact that tubers in a wet climate make for a chancy crop...
...showdown shooting match takes place on a careening runaway train loaded with gold, bandits and George Peppard. When the whole thing cracks up at the end of the scene in a magnificent melange of flying bodies, hurtling timbers, exploding machinery and snapping chains, the audience's wet palms explode in a burst of spontaneous applause...