Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mack's only consolation during the wet weekend was beating MIT's Barbara Belt for low point skipper honors in A division. Meredith O'Donnell of third-place URI won the award for B division...
...computer is Datapoint 5500, a "minicomputer" Harvard bought last year, and Brown-Beasley, assistant to the Office of Fiscal Services, is the computer's wet-nurse. There are ten terminals on this end of the third floor of Holyoke Center, he says, and they are so versatile that if you really wanted to, you could wire them up "every ten miles down the trans-Canadian pipeline." Brown-Beasley seems to like this phrase; he says it again before lifting the memory "drive," which looks like a stack of records inside a plastic cylinder, out of the machine and switching...
...their own bathrooms." But he also heard Bonny Landers say, "I'm grateful for the job. It's either this or being a barmaid in Boston." The student porter is filled with ambivalence as he is sucked into a confrontation he does not desire, his mop is not even wet...
Caddies in the pre-modern era of golf also put in a hard day of work. Before wooden tees were ever invented, small mounds of wet sand served the purpose. The result was that caddies traipsed along the fairway with troughs of wet sand slung around their necks before it dawned on the members of the Innerleven golf course in Fife, Scotland to install stationary sand boxes on each...
Kodak's is a dry-to-the-touch, litter-free process, unlike earlier "wet" Polaroid systems that produced sticky prints after sensitized paper was peeled off and discarded. The cheaper Kodak model will probably use a thumb-operated lever to set the camera for each new picture. A battery will power the more costly version, but it will be installed in the camera, not in the film pack, as is the case with the SX-70 system. This will increase film shelf life and avoid all the problems Polaroid had with its early SX-70 film packs, whose batteries...