Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overheated oil feed pipe. The regular engineer was painfully burned about the hand. Regally commanding alarmed passengers, who set up a cry of bombs, Bulgaria's Boris leaped to the throttle and drove the train carefully to the nearest bridge, where he put out the fire with wet sand. He dressed the engineer's hand himself, then, sopping wet, proudly ran the train the rest of the way to Varna...
...game between Princeton and Harvard took place on the grounds of the St. George Cricket Grounds on Friday, November 3. The weather was all that could be desired; but the turf was somewhat wet and slippery from the rain of the preceding day. About five or six hundred people assembled to witness the game, mostly friends of Princeton, though we were glad to see among the crowd several fair wearers of the crimson...
...blanket win over New Hampshire. Yale, however, has had as successful a season, though it ran up against harder competition. Last week Yale beat Cornell for the first time in thirty-five years, with the score 21-35. It should be noted that the race was run on a wet track, and that despite these conditions, an Eli runner came within six seconds of the course record...
...swim away. Though his efforts were heroic, his progress was practically nil, and some thirty seconds later he was rapidly overhauled by a long arm, which ignominiously lifted and deposited him in the bottom of the boat, defeated, but not discouraged, thwarted, but not downhearted, but very, very wet...
...sunny public square of Marino, a medieval town high in the Roman Hills, good-natured carabinieri in soaking wet uniforms last week kept a riotous crowd back from the public fountain. One by one they let villagers and visitors approach. One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets. It was the annual vintage festival, celebrated in Marino for over a thousand years...