Word: wets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wet voters made Virginia the 32nd straight State to ratify the 21st Amendment last week, carrying even Bishop James Cannon Jr.'s hometown of Blackstone...
That section of Adolf speech which dealt specifically (and with welcome frankness) with Franco-German relations, ought to have thrown a wet blanket over the hot foreign presses. The Chancellor declared in his best manner that only a madman would even consider a war between France and the Fatherland, since 'the sacrifices entailed were so much less than the losses of conflict." Certainly this should have satisfied Europe. But the last war seems to have spawned a great many political sceptics, whose unkind interpretation of Hitler's argument reads something like this: "War at the moment would be disastrous...
...guaranteeing Labor's right to bargain collectively, gave Leader Lewis his chance. The act was never intended to advantage either Labor or Capital. The clause that gave Labor a powerful organizing club was not fully appreciated by the Administration until, with the President's signature still wet on the Act, union leaders leaped into action. Among the first was United Miner Lewis. U. M. W. sound trucks invaded such battle-scarred coal fields as West Virginia's Mingo and Logan Counties, Kentucky's Harlan County. Free beer drew large crowds. Mine bosses looked on aghast...
...down each winter over dirt paths about the University will no longer be necessitated, for 75 per cent of these paths have already been replaced by paving during the summer. No longer will the students have to traverse the slippery boards to keep their ankles out of the wet gravel and slimy clay, for it is expected that all the paths will be replaced before the end of the year. It was learned that the cost of constructing the new walks is offset by the cost of putting down the boardwalks in the fall and taking them...
...cast up by last weekend's inundation of the Advocate Building's cellar we were again reminded of how poor a navigator was Miss Emily Dickinson. "There is no frigate like a book," wrote she with, to be sure, great joy but with little sensitivity for the nuances of wet lambskin...