Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miserable and wet weather, the Boston Red Sox opened their season yesterday at Fenway Park with a 5-2 loss to Kansas City, and gave signs that they will be miserable and wet even when the climate improves...
Providing that the weather does not decide to take a hand in the proceedings again, the Crimson baseball team will open its season at 3 p.m. today against Tufts at Soldiers Field. The game, originally scheduled for yesterday, was postponed because of wet rounds...
...Monet-he kept his word. In 1905 he helped Stieglitz start the Photo-Secession Galleries in New York, a rallying point for those who wanted to "secede from the notion that photography is only literal representation." Steichen wanted to "push out the realm of the camera." He loved "wet days, yellow, foggy days, twilights," and to catch the mood, he would purposely blur the picture by kicking the tripod or wetting the lens. In developing his famed Steeplechase Day, Paris; After the Races, a carefree scene at the Longchamp track, he kept the background dark, highlighting the figures until they...
...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
Using energy taken from the light, the algae absorbed the carbon dioxide given off by McClure's lungs and replaced it with oxygen. The air in the closed system smelled like wet hay, but it stayed rich in oxygen (21%), while its CO2 content never got higher than a harmless...