Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favored among native onlookers who have watched the Indian team perform against Harvard and other Eastern rivals. Stanford, with two defeats by Southern California and California smirching its record, nevertheless boasts of a powerful attack which should put the two opponents on an even basis in case of wet conditions. Unfortunately for the visiting Westerners the Big Green aggregation is at the peak of its form; two weeks ago it laid low an undefeated Cornell team, and previous to that showed great strength against Harvard and Yale...
...good Californian, he expressed a horror of mud and a wet field, to which, he says his players are unused
...along the iron fence on Pennsylvania Avenue the shrill voices penetrated to the White House. At first President Hoover refused to believe that the husband of Mary, his only sister, was in such unseemly trouble. Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the Wet smirks that were sure to follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June...
...today the leading Democratic candidate, he is far from being the unanimous choice of his party. A faction, supposedly led by Messrs. Smith, Raskob & Baruch, with support in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois, objects to Mr. Roosevelt's nomination on three grounds: 1) he is too Dry a Wet; 2) he is too radical on water power; 3) he is too unsteady economically. Long has the anti-Roosevelt group been casting around for a candidate of its own. Last week it looked as if Governor Ritchie, thoroughly Wet, thoroughly conservative, had been tentatively chosen as their man to "stop...
...through an undefeated season: my power has become supreme and the wizards of football have groveled at my feet begging for elemency. But despite all my omnipotence I have been wise and just. Today the epitome of my wisdom will be shown. Despite the three week layoff, the probable wet field, and the strain of being the favored team Harvard will come out on top by a 13 to 6 score...