Word: graveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscribers of The Nudist, official organ of the International Nudist Conference, went last week not The Nudist but copies of a substitute called Sunshine. Subscribers were disappointed to observe that Sunshine contained no photographs of nudists disporting themselves in the gravel-pits, weed-patches or trout streams of their colonies. It contained only solemnly written text concerning U. S. nudists and their more dignified activities.* Sunshine was preceded by a letter explaining what had happened to The Nudist. A month ago its publishers-because they wished to confine their circulation to subscribers, eliminate entirely The Nudist's newsstand sales...
...down each winter over dirt paths about the University will no longer be necessitated, for 75 per cent of these paths have already been replaced by paving during the summer. No longer will the students have to traverse the slippery boards to keep their ankles out of the wet gravel and slimy clay, for it is expected that all the paths will be replaced before the end of the year. It was learned that the cost of constructing the new walks is offset by the cost of putting down the boardwalks in the fall and taking them...
...that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed...
...garage, now being built in the Yard between Emerson Hall and the President's House, marks what may be the first structure in a new building program under President Conant. It faces Quincy Street along the gravel driveway, and is constructed of red brick, inn harmony with the other buildings in the Yard. The two swinging doors will be set in colonial arches of white wood, and besides the four big square windows and the door, there will be two round windows in each gable-end, at the front and back of the garage. This will heighten the Georgian effect...
...They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...