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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...related event, Gus Deveta, superintendent at the University squash courts, expressed concern over the wet courts located on the side of the building...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Racquetmen Remain Undefeated, Crushing Phillips Exeter Varsity, 5-0 | 1/13/1972 | See Source »

...Manure. Despite treatment, the Libby wastes lying stagnant in the lagoons often smell like rotten meat. In the words of one irate citizen, the odor is reminiscent of "pig manure." Even so, the smells are seasonal, and (to most people) bearable. But last summer's wet weather produced an unusually large beet crop-and the worst smells ever. Fed up, 100 townspeople have now formed S.M.E.L.L.S. (Someone Must Eliminate Libby Lagoon Smells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: S.M.E.LL.S. v. Smells | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

...mother and child. And Alfred Stieglitz a papa in photographer and a great art lover, introduced the American public to Picasso, Matisse and others. His misty streets in "Glow of Night. N.Y.," and the rippling reflections of "Venetian Doorways," are nicely juxtaposed to point out staccato reflections in wet surfaces...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Photography At the Fogg | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

...rally originally scheduled to be held on the Monument Grounds yesterday was forced indoors to the All Souls Church here by the ceaseless downpour. About 500 wet demonstrators filled the church--located about three miles from the Monument Grounds--to hear antiwar speakers and make plans for the next day's protests...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii and Peter Shapiro, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: Washington Antiwar Rally Rained Out | 10/26/1971 | See Source »

...present a more or less repetitive series of matrimonial alarums and excursions. The De Vries wife-customarily strong, indulgent, humorless but invaluable -acts as a combined anchor and honeypot for the engaging, mercurial, hopelessly lightweight De Vriesian husband, who mostly can't pun his way out of a wet paper bag but is willing to die trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Is Company | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

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