Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trooper described an accident-five cars in one mess, seven killed on the spot, two dead on the way to the hospital, two more dead in the long run. . . . Three bodies out of one car were so soaked with oil from the crankcase that they looked like wet browrn cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl...
...order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them a few verses of classical French poetry. Her brother Gerald (Dartmouth 1930) is the meticulous U. S. vice consul at Mukden, Manchuria...
...than last year's. Barley was due for the second biggest crop in history. The rye harvest, which last year was the poorest in 40 years, will be so big this year that AAA has already made plans for a crop reduction program. Despite floods and a cold, wet spring in the Central States, the corn crop was running 50% better than last year. Whereas on April i the Govern-ment had estimated a winter wheat crop 435,499,000 bu., this figure by last week had been boosted to 458,000,000. For winter and spring wheat combined...
...Wetting the bed after he is three years old is a habit no child should have.** Yet a tremendous number of children suffer from enuresis. Adenoids, flat feet, thyroid deficiencies and a score more reasons have been presented to explain bedwetting. Dr. Kanner says it is almost always due simply to lack of adequate training, general carelessness concerning the regularity of the child's habits. To cure a child of wetting the bed Dr. Kanner simply tells him that he can be cured, that he should not be ashamed, that he should help with all his might. Almost invariably children...
...Wet in more ways than one the members of the Class of 1910 have turned out more than 1100 strong to break all previous records for 25th Reunion attendance and jubilation. This afternoon's festivities will mark the finish of the social activities which were put in full swing Monday evening by an entertainment "Life Begins at Ten Forty" held in the Rindge auditorium...