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Word: wetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacation is the time to watch the spring come in, not to fly to tropical summer or to stretch out winter to the crack of doom. It's the time for a dash on the young colt through country lanes in Connecticut, for tramping over wet hills, bag over shoulder, pushing a golf ball from bog to bog, trap to trap, and every so often sinking a birdie. Time to rise with the dawn, and hark to the lark in the trees by the edge of the lake in the morning mist, and watch the forsythia push forth in glory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...steps which the Council is taking lead in the right direction. A faculty advisory board might be persuaded to offer its services for coaching, assisting in deciding winners, and generally playing wet nurse to the organization; and the minor outside debates to be held before local groups in Cambridge and Boston should foster the interest of many hitherto kept out of the picture. Better distribution of prize money is also a magnet of potential drawing power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLD IN THE HOUSES | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

...seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized Labor. But the 600 cigar-factory girls who sat down for extra pay in Newark, N. J. had no union, did not want one. The seven Negro wet nurses who sat down for 10? per oz. in Chicago (see cut p. 12) had never heard of John L. Lewis, replied to questioners: "Y'all must mean Joe Louis." In Ionia, demanding back pay, members of the Michigan National Guard who had policed Flint during the General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Everybody's Doing It | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Varsity soccer team; and skiier George Clowes are among the veterans who will probably be among those taking the Spring Vacation trip to Bermuda. Meanwhile, there will be several practice games, though the one that was scheduled for this Saturday will probably have to be postponed due to the wet field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

...hard to pick out individuals in such a triumph; of course Charley Hutter, Graham Cummin, Greg Jameson and Rus Greenhood deserve all possible praise, but it was the team that triumphed and no group of individual stars. Through it all stands the figure of Hal Ulen, smiling, happy, dripping wet after the immersion in the pool he has so long been waiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick All-League Hoop Team; Mermen Topple Yale | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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