Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard and Maine failed to play their scheduled baseball game yesterday when the contest was called off because of wet grounds. Ground keeper Dennis Enright gave notice in the morning that the field would not be in condition and the Harvard authorities immediately wired the Maine aggregation and cancelled the contest...
What gave this statement political significance was the forthright Wet position taken by her November opponent, James Hamilton Lewis, whom Illinois Democrats had last week nominated for the Senate in their primary. " Jim Ham" Lewis is now 67. His famed whiskers are no longer the glittering pinkish red they were when (1913-19) he was a Senator from Illinois, but have turned a silvery grey.* But his speech is as flowery as ever, his manners as ostentatiously courtly, his choice in waistcoats and neckware as vividly colorful. Said he last week of the Republican primary and Prohibition...
...well pointed Wet-&-Dry contest between Mrs. McCormick and Mr. Lewis in Illinois aroused widespread interest. The State is nominally Republican by 500,000 votes. Also it has been proved thoroughly Wet, according to polls and referenda...
...Photography 50 years ago, when George Eastman entered the business, was a cumbersome and tedious pastime. One wishing to go into the country for a few snapshots had first to procure the services of a mule. On the mule would be loaded: a tent for the preparation of the "wet plates" (which were sensitized in the tent and put, dripping, into the camera); vats for the chemical solutions; a tripod which would support a piano box: a camera nearly as large as a piano box: a helper...
College prohibition polls have done what they set out to do, namely, get the college students' stand on prohibition. The results have added weight to the ever growing wet sentiment. This is less important than the fact that this expression came from a cross section of the country from whom those men who will act on either prohibition, or its successor, in the next generation, will be chosen...