Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, is in his favor, but he is far from being the only man with presidential aspirations coming from a pivotal state. The diminutive figure of Baker makes that of Bulkley look very small at this time. Moreover, it is by no means certain that Bulkley's avowed wet stand is a point in his favor...
...introduction of "wet" collodion plates brought new hope, and by their use in 1857 George P. Bond, the son and successor of William Bond, succeeded in photographing stars of the sixth magnitude, which includes all visible to the naked eye. About one hundred plates of this period are used in the Harvard collection in good condition...
Before packed galleries the House roll was being called on the first clear-cut issue of the 18th Amendment since its original passage Dec. 18, 1917 by a vote of 282-to-128. A parliamentary petition by 145 Wets had forced this question: Shall the House take up a resolution by Pennsylvania's Beck and Maryland's Linthicum to amend the Constitution for the return of liquor control to the States? The Wets, with no hope of actual victory, purposed by this ballot to put every House member on record on Prohibition, weed out the weaslers...
...time engineer and onetime president and board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works; after a two-day illness; in Rosemont, near Philadelphia. His advice to employes: "Imitate the example of the locomotive; he runs along, whistles over his work, and yet never takes anything but water when he wants to wet his whistle...
...Bulkley ran for the Senate as an out-and-out wet in the state of Ohio, home of the Anti-Saloon League, winning from the dry candidate, Roscoe, in a contest to fill the vacancy left by the death of Senator Burton. He will be up for reelection this year...