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Word: wetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of the Kentucky Derby, thunder tumbled and the rain splashed down on Louisville in buckets. Maryland's Ed Christmas, who was training a mud-horse named Escadru, woke up and grinned. So did Texas' Ben Whitaker, whose My Request runs well on a wet track. It was still raining and the racing strip was a quagmire when Christmas bumped into Ben Whitaker at the stables and muttered slyly: "Every flag in Kentucky's flying half-mast." The heavy rain was over by breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Arcaro Picks a Winner | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...refused to promote him beyond a certain point. Much wonder that he was able to say, "When I sit in the garden in the cool of the evening ... I feel as if I never could go home. India has burnt itself into me and I dread the cold and wet country of my birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlighted Places | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Chuckle (Wy.) Bellylaugh drove in 21 of the Crimson runs. Sergeant James Toumey ran in the other two. The boatings: WE THEY Neverstall, jg Choo Handemedown, ss Choo Pooshemup, tony Train Stein, beer Smith, trom. Bear, woolly Punch, ugh Coxe, sic Brelis, spade Weather, wet Kops, ng Track, fast Cabot, lockout Altrocchi? Marx, engels

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ho Hum --- Crime Wins, 23-2 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...wet days, throw away your brassie and one-iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tips from Hogan | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

April showers have kept Crimson tennis courts clean, wet, and tenantless this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Rainfall Thwarts Netmen | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

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