Word: wettest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornell University; Mr. & Mrs. Harper Sibley, rich religious leaders of Rochester, N. Y. † Last month Dr. Clarence True Wilson, publicly criticizing the personnel of the Wickersham Commission, characterized Commissioner Ada Comstock as "President of a woman's college [Radcliffe] which has been known as one of the wettest and one of the smokiest. . . ." **By sudden, unexpected fire drills at dead of night do alert Mt. Holyoke officials sometimes check up on their students' whereabouts...
After the wettest, coldest summer in years?a summer that rotted potatoes in the ground in Ireland, nearly ruined the French wheat crop, brought disastrous business to summer resorts?all Europe fried last week. Newspapers, eager to blame anything from the cost of living to the morals of the younger generation on the U. S., wrote columns about the "American heat." Only wine and wheat growers rejoiced, hoped that the dry, hot weather would revive the remnant of their water-logged crops...
...Department of Justice's reorganization of Prohibition Enforcement, which it took over this month from the Treasury (TIME, July 7), first notable change was at the biggest, Wettest metropolis in the land. For Major Maurice Campbell, Prohibition Administrator of New York City, was substituted a stalwart, black-mustachioed Kentuckian, Andrew McCampbell, 57, personal believer in Prohibition, a Dry law enforcer of long experience in the Midwest and on the Canadian border...