Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trooping up the Newell Boathouse slip on a dark gray day, after an hour of poor rowing, the 150-pound oarsman lowers at his reflection in the sleek wet shell and nurses the black conviction that today he pulled the boat all by himself. It is at this touchy moment that coach Bert Haines, a slim, middling-aged man with a wind-reddened face underlined by a thick white towel around his neck, steps from a launch, calls the day's offender aside, and with gestures explains in a gentle, English-tinged voice, "Now, this is the surface...
...Employees." And that's the truth. But with Jim it's a matter of principle. And so the pickets pace, while Jim worries about them. Last March, Jim was out there in the snow sweeping off the sidewalk "so the boys wouldn't get their feet wet." Some mornings when they don't show up on time, Jim will call union headquarters. "What's wrong?" he'll say. "Are the boys ill?" Jim can never forget how the tuberculosis took Jim Ryan, his favorite picket of them all, God rest his soul...
Rain, mud, and a girl's natural reluctance to get her feet wet combined this morning to scratch the tradition infested Wellesley hoop race for the third consecutive...
...York - Chicago, postponed, wet grounds...
Local tipsters were rudely jointed out of plans for an early-morning cleanup yesterday when wet grounds and a heavy track caused postponement of the annual Hoop Derby, scheduled for a dawn start on Wellesley's templed hills...