Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Late one wet night last week a shiny, blue school bus rolled through Rockville, Md., 16 miles north of Washington. Snugly inside the bus lolled boys and girls of the senior science class of Williamsport, Md. High School, returning from a chemistry demonstration at College Park. Most of them were in the rear. In front their teacher sat beside Driver Percy Line. The pupils were singing school songs so loudly that the driver could not hear well, and outside it was raining so hard that he could not see well. The bus started to lumber across a Baltimore & Ohio rail...
...opening from front to back so that the machine straddles the row of plants. Into this opening a line of small, smooth, revolving rods project sideways. Carried on an endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods are wet, the cotton sticks to them and winds itself around them. The adhering cotton is then mechanically stripped from the rods and passed into a hopper by suction. That is all. Planters who watched the Rust machine in action last season in Arkansas fields wondered why it had not been invented...
...stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The stew meat: gristly. The chicken: hacked instead of carved...
...lovers are standing in the rain outside a New York hotel. Taxis slither by in the wet, and the doorman eyes them coldly...
Vegetables all wet and runny...