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When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...that author Robert L. Joseph simply cannot settle on an approach to the problem of a child's death. The play's title comes from a fantasy the little girl and her father (Noel Willman) share about a happy place for skinny people, where it rains but nothing gets wet. This idea is not developed; nor is the sub-plot involving the hysterical mother (Norma Crane) who tries doctor after doctor long after all hope is lost, nor is the last-minute appeal to religion...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Isle of Children | 3/1/1962 | See Source »

Exhausted pickets arriving here after all-night bus trips were plagued and hindered by several hours of wet snow during...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Indifference, Disagreements Plague Student Delegations | 2/17/1962 | See Source »

...hundred prospective participants in next weekend's Washington Project were told Saturday "to get their feet wet" in practical politics as the only way to achieve the goals embodied in their policy statement...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Washington Project Told to Get 'Feet Wet' in Practical Politics | 2/12/1962 | See Source »

...surface not protected by the crayon. It worked, but in the traditional way of relief printing. At length, it occurred to Senefelder that he could get a transferable design on his stone without having to eat the stone away with acid. After applying his wax crayon, he wet the stone with a mixture of water and gum arabic, and then covered the surface with ink. The water-resistant crayon markings took the ink. but the moisture elsewhere repelled it. Senefelder could now transfer his de sign to paper in a simple hand press, though the wetting and inking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sorcery of the Stone | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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