Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's the craziest thing I've ever seen at Leverett? It happened at our all-male "Wet T-Shirt Contest" last year. The best bod in the house came in second to what was, inarguably, the skinniest bod. But that wiry frame belonged to our venerable, oft-worshipped I.M. head who eventually led us to our second straight Straus Cup victory...
Carolann M. Nowlan, a native English speaker, says she doesn't expect her son Jason to become completely fluent of Spanish. Nowlan says she enrolled her son in the program so that he can "get [his] feet wet in the experience of learning a language...
...woven into designer clothes. For starters, it would take 500 to 1,000 spiders to spin out enough silk for one necktie. "And you probably wouldn't want to wear a necktie made of spider silk anyway," laughs zoologist John Gosline of the University of British Columbia. Reason: when wet, spider silk contracts 50%, a property that, in a necktie at least, might prove decidedly unpleasant on damp days. Armed with the tools of molecular biology, however, scientists can learn how spiders construct their silk and then apply those lessons to the design of other fibers. "After all," says Gosline...
...originally wanted to move the shelter off its property and into Central Square, a poorer neighborhood which has just started to recover from a two-decade slump. When residents learned that the university wanted to move the "wet" shelter--so called because it does not require residents to seek rehabilitation--from the isolated spot near MIT into their neighborhood, they got upset. And rightly so--wet shelters, when placed in a residential neighborhood, cause problems. Residents of these shelters often spend their days not in rehab but on the streets...
...crying "Not in my backyard." Many citzens in richer neighborhoods criticized the Central Square residents as alcoholic-hating villians--an absurb portrayal of a neighborhood which already hosts ten times as many social programs as any other part of the city. Central Square residents simply didn't want a wet shelter built next door to their homes. They suggested that MIT could find a better solution. MIT said nothing. Instead, cloaking its selfishness in the rhetoric of good will, the university decided to let Cambridge residents take the blame for the university's insensitivity...