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Word: wetness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although they emerged soaking wet after matches against Yale and Brown in the recent Brown Invitational Tournament, they came up for air long enough to soundly defeat UMass...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Waterballers, Low on Funds, Face Yale at Home Today | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

Small Events. But the high points of the show are twelve hanging scrolls, six by Itō Jakachu and six by Sakai Hōitsu. These artists represent the poles of style and temperament in Edo period painting: Hōitsu with his feathery, elusive washes of ink painted wet into wet; Jakachu with his steely drawing and complicated patterns. Hōitsu was nobly born, the younger brother of a feudal lord. However, he wanted to paint, and, being a most elegant dilettante, educated to the fingertips, he ran through a succession of styles before fixing the manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Emperor's Show | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...scheduled twi-night double-header between the Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles was postponed Thursday because of rain and wet grounds, adding to the growing list of possible makeup games next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oriole Twinbill Washed Out; Playoffs May Determine Title | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...real drama, though, was developing directly in back of the pacesetters, where Harvard captain Bill Okerman, Crimson freshman Peter Fitzsimmons and Bob Flora were engaged in a wet battle for third...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Huskies Dodge Deluge, Crimson Harriers, 25-30 | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

...used snowmobiles) a mile or so outside the proud community of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Three dollars for a little plot for the tent, a picnic table, and a bunch of rocks in a circle to start a fire in, a fire which I later couldn't get started because of wet wood, an episode ending in a most unwoodsman-like display of burned fingers, smoldering copies of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and constant invocations of deity piercing loudly and unecologically through the bucolic serenity of the Northland forest. Earlier, we pulled in to pay and encountered an old woman who began...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

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