Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swollen. Hopeless of curing them, he long tried to soothe them with various ointments and lotions. Dr. Soiland sails yachts in his leisure time. Last year it dawned on him that his hands felt better after being doused in salt water. He at once experimented in his laboratory with wet salt dressings, found the benefits to his hands real. Pacific Ocean water seemed to do him more good than Atlantic water, which is less salty. "Now," wrote he last week. "I frequently go to sleep with a pair of cotton gloves on my hands, with a little extra padding over...
Last month this high-speed Harvard sophomore made familiar news when, driving to Washington for the Christmas holidays with his brother John, he was arrested near Orange, Conn, for zipping along at 78 m.p.h. over a wet highway, disregarding a red light. By telephone a White House secretary got his trial post-poned until Christmas holidays were over...
...lack of power and last-minute patchwork of fabric, however, failed to perturb Flight Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm, who had made the Pacific crossing in 1928 with Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in the Southern Cross. Said he: "I don't intend to get my feet wet...
...great Samuels silver sale dawned cold and grey. Soon it began to rain. It rained all day. Enough patriotic San Franciscans went to Samuels' in slickers and galoshes to keep the extra crew of clerks busy. But as a record-breaking sale it was a wet, soggy flop...
...Brooklyn color processor who found his paper distorted by atmospheric humidity went to Buffalo Forge Co. to see what could be done. In the company's employ was Willis Carrier, just out of Cornell. Young Carrier was interested, began to experiment, found that warm wet air could be cooled and dried by passing it through an atomized spray. By 1915 he had recruited a partner and enough capital to start Carrier Engineering Corp. in Newark, N. J. In 1922 he invented a centrifugal refrigerating compressor which has been a potent factor in building Carrier prestige. He works hard...