Word: wettest
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...votes, 15,000 of American college youth were willing to lose their reputation for virtue in order to support repeal or modification of the liquor laws. Pennsylvania, however, was the exception to the rule, and the Quakers registered a majority dry vote. Princeton, naturally enough, had the wettest vote. Over 79 per cent of the Tigers admitted that they drank...
Spring swept on across the state, wrenching at homes, uprooting trees, blocking highways and railroads, swelling rivers and streams' and sogging levees to wrap up Northern California's wettest winter since 1890. In the majestic High Sierra the storms piled new snow into 20-ft. drifts, marooned 1,000 vacationers in ski lodges and Nevada state line gambling clubs, bogged transcontinental trucks straining across Donner Pass, treated 97 passengers aboard Southern Pacific's crack streamliner City of San Francisco to 30 hours of well-fed isolation in a snowbound snowshed near the pass...
Spring pounded, too, at Southern California, already beset and embarrassed by its own wettest winter in six years. Recurrent slides of rain-soaked earth dumped 500,000 tons of rubble on to U.S. Highway loiA, west of Los Angeles, killed the district highway superintendent, rolled over and buried dozens of trucks, left two blocks of fashionable Pacific Palisades homes perilously close to the edge. The Mojave Desert's Mojave River, known as "UpsideDown River" because all but a trickle of its flow is underground, rose to near-flood dimensions near Barstow...
...million appropriation for the District of Columbia and sent it on to the Senate. Next day the House voted to increase D.C. taxes by nearly $10 million, including a 5?-per-fifth increase (from $1 to $1.25 per gallon) in liquor for one of the nation's wettest cities...
...wettest January recorded was in 1936 when 8.41 inches fell. The storm to date has already exceeded the average monthly rainfall of 4.12 inches. Last year at this time only 0.81 inches had fallen...