Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assignments on a varied list of plays. Teams now have more speed than they used to and why not, a player has an outfit that allows him to move agilely about. By actual weight a football uniform in my day in the last few minutes of play on a wet afternoon would weigh from 55 to as high as 65 pounds. How could a man play good football while carrying that much weight...
...Charles. It was about six in the evening, while there was a slight chill in the air, the evening stars were bright, and, if our intellectual almanac does not err, there was a bit of a moon. Dew was on the grass--at any rate, it was wet--and we were in tune with nature. Suddenly we saw ahead of us a couple. They were a plain, stubby couple, but they were arm in arm, and obviously not yet married. Approaching them, we listened for their remarks, with a benign curiosity. As they passed, the following morsel emanated from...
...that it is definitely dry, the vote being: Against repeal, 214,000; For repeal, 97,000. South Carolina, another of the states voting yesterday, also gives indications of going dry; the latest figures from that state are: Against repeal, 33,000; For repeal, 31,000. Pennsylvania returns are overwhelmingly wet, with 96,000 votes for repeal, and 15,000 against it. Ohio is 2-1 in favor of repeal, while Utah and Kentucky are unknown...
...ability of TIME'S Production Department to produce separate Dry and Wet State editions without sacrificing speed or efficiency of delivery...
Despite the cluckings of his doctors, George V wrapped himself in a thick ulster and went down to cold, wet Newmarket Heath last week for the Cambridgeshire. His Limelight was a starter, and the dope sheets and his trainers assured His Majesty that Limelight was the best horse he has owned since Scuttle won the 1,000 Guineas in 1928. Sweepstake investors had put up a total of $8,500,000 on the race. Limelight went to the post, through a sea of glistening mackintoshes, a 5-to-1 favorite. Up to the quarter-mile Limelight held the lead, seemed...