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Word: wettest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, the rains come, alright, and the dam breaks, and George Brent flounders around in ten feet of water, and on the whole it's one of the wettest movie-going evenings since "The Hurricane." But unlike "The Hurricane" it was a bit wet from the critical point of view, too. A cast headed by Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power has a right to expect a decent script with which to work. But 20th Century Fox let them down with the script of "The Rains Came." For instance: Brent to Loy, "It's exciting seeing you again." Loy to Brent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...nature of which expansive Southern California does not boast is floods. After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90°, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst. The precipitation, 7.26 in., made the wettest early December since 1889, reminded frightened Los Angelenos of their disastrous floods last March (11 in. in five days). Casualty: a ten-year-old boy fell and was knocked unconscious, drowned in a puddle. Wisecrack: Radio Comedian Bob Hope complained that he had been arrested for going through a traffic light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Cloudburst | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...independent of foreign wheat imports. Due to years of intensified cultivation and reclamation of some 6,600,000 acres of swampland, Italian farms last year produced about 300,000,000 bushels, 20,000,000 more than the nor mal national need which was Mussolini's goal. The coldest, wettest winter since the turn of the Century, followed by a prolonged spring drought led to anticipation that this year's crop would fall to 220,000,000 bushels. Recent rains came in the nick of time and it is now predicted that the harvest will produce slightly over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Harvest and Headaches | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Houses Lowell polled the largest vote. Of the 202 ballots cast there, only 14 opposed making the question a political issue and only 16 favored continuation of the existing situation. Eliot polled the wettest vote when only a little more than 2 per cent of the 163 in favor of putting prohibition in the platforms voted in favor of continuation of the present laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Favor Making Prohibition Issue in Campaigns | 5/26/1932 | See Source »

...London reported the wettest day of the wettest summer in 40 years last week. The Thames was up. The London fire brigade received hourly calls to pump out flooded houses. At Silverdale. near Stoke-upon-Trent, the whole (town took to the upper stories. Streets, fields, and lower stories were awash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Deluge | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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