Search Details

Word: wetness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Capricornia begins at the end of the 19th Century, when the Northwest's population was mostly crocodiles, devil crabs, creak-winged jabirus and colored aborigines. Pioneers from South Australia pushed up into a half million square miles drenched to swamp by the wet season, parched to desert by the dry. They were there to stay. When the defeated Larrapunas persisted in guerrilla tactics, the settlers gave them gifts of flour spiced with arsenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Scarlet Plains | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...N.S.C.S. softball schedule was launched last week in spite of the Boston winds and rain. The opening game was played by classes B and C; the latter winning by a score of 13 to 12. the wet field and intermittent rain contributed to the large score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

...jobs, little special equipment is needed. The ground is plowed, harrowed and cleared of larger stones. Bags of cement are spotted in a checkerboard pattern. Spread evenly, the cement is mixed dry with ordinary farm machinery, (disc and spring-tooth harrows are good), then sprinkled with water and mixed wet until an even color shows that the mix is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Airfields in a Hurry | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...rush jobs like airfields use machines in tandem which make scarifying and mixing a continuous operation. Most important is thorough tamping: rolling the surface hard is not enough; the wet mix must be compacted from the bottom. This is done with the well-named "sheep's-foot" roller (see cut), whose hundreds of small steel projections pound down into the mixture. Once tamped hard, the surface is graded smooth, then protected against scuffing by a thin bituminous top coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Airfields in a Hurry | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

Want to hear a fairly accurate reproduction of a cow walking in wet mud? Follow Don Jackson some night

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company B | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 681 | 682 | 683 | 684 | 685 | 686 | 687 | 688 | 689 | 690 | 691 | 692 | 693 | 694 | 695 | 696 | 697 | 698 | 699 | 700 | 701 | Next