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Word: wettest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also a professor of homiletics (pulpit oratory), he has been around & about colleges all his life. He spent his boyhood on the campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about his father's class, the long hours in chapel, and the fact that, in Hutchins' sophomore year (1916), Ohio State beat Oberlin at football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worst Kind of Troublemaker | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...customers sipping aperitifs or spooning sweetened ices; children sailed toy boats in the stone-rimmed pond of the Luxembourg Gardens. In Italy, peasant women remarked on the number of hens laying two eggs a day; perhaps it was the warm weather. And in Western Germany, after one of the wettest and greyest winters in 20 years, the sun was shining again, fitfully, but shining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Insuring snug conditions in the wettest weather is a brand new $20,000 skylight, which looks down onto the newly-installed Oregon pine balcony saucer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Track Aspirants Hear Coach Mikkola Outline Program for Season | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

...railway debacle, the public has been aware that this was no ordinary strike. No one seemed to be talking about company profits or dictatorial union practices. It seemed that the seamen wanted more money and the companies were willing enough to give it to them, but that Washington, the wettest blanket at a sweet party, had said a lond and determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...spite of such dry spots, the U.S. Weather Bureau called it the country's fifth wettest July since 1817. It blamed the East Coast's rain on a northward migration (to a point off New York) of the eastern high pressure area, known to weathermen as the "Bermuda high," that usually lies off the Carolinas. That brought southeast winds, dripping with moisture picked up from the hot Gulf Stream and the Caribbean. Annoyed with vagrant Bermuda highs, the New York Times decided that they are "an invention of the devil and should be abolished." But the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saint & the Devil | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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