Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first it was thought that the pulp could be made into paper but insulating board soon promised a better use. Backed by a group of Wisconsin lumbermen, Inventor Mason began to experiment with methods of forming and pressing his pulp. Once when he went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present...
...forecast was verified to the letter: the rainfall was intermittent: it was light, the amount at Blue Hill was only 0.08 inch up to 12:30. I was present throughout the exercises, wearing an academic gown but no raincoat or other protection, and did not get wet through...
...repair facial palsy. In that disease the facial nerve controlling all the muscles which give character and expression to the features, degenerates. A chill, a mastoid operation or a fracture may cause facial palsy. No matter what the cause, one side of the face falls slack as a wet towel on a hook. Half the features sag in a drooping grimace...
Some of the youths and girls asked me if I had a camera and could take their pictures. They wanted to pose before the smoking ruins. ... A blonde militia girl came out cursing. . . . She looked beautiful in her blue trousers with her blonde hair, wet, falling over her shoulders." Yindrich meanwhile found a "pretty girl'' from Buenos Aires amiably acting as interpreter for a Soviet cinema cameraman who had arrived from Moscow to film the fall of the Alcázar for worldwide Communist purposes. According to Ptlaum and Yindrich, net result of the GRAND BLAST operation...
...Topeka let it be known that Alf M. Landon 1) "drank" as a young man; 2) now drinks only an occasional beer; 3) keeps neither beer nor liquor in the icebox or pantry of the Executive Mansion of Dry Kansas; 4) might possibly take a highball in a Wet State although he has often refused one; 5) regards drinking "tolerantly...