Word: mire
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Besides the mire and dust of gravel paths there is a greater total expense to the university. Asphalt requires very little upkeep and makes snow removal infinitely cheaper and more rapid. The use of dangerous and unsightly narrow wooden walks in winter is unnecessary; the expensive storage and repair of these may be abandoned...
...weeks President Roosevelt has been pulled and hauled between two conflicting ideas on cotton loans. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace saw that the 12? loan policy, if extended, would mire the Government in surplus cotton, perhaps sink the AAA in financial failure. Therefore he argued stoutly against any continuation of the 12? loan. Southern Senators and Representatives, thinking only of political effects, yowled and yammered for another year of 12? cotton, warned the New Deal it would lose all its Southern friends if it did otherwise. An able compromiser, President Roosevelt finally approved the AAA plan announced last week. To guarantee...
...marked contrast to its supporters, who insist on speaking of trenches, mire, and flags, etc., the opposition to the bill headed by prominent educators has replied in sober language. They view the bill merely as an aspersion on their loyalty and seek, with pathetic eagerness, to discover reasons for the bill's existence lurking somewhere in the background...
When Adolf Hitler seized power Germany's trade balance had been favorable for three years and thus her vital imports were more than paid for by the proceeds of her exports. While this lasted the Fatherland could be considered economically afloat, no matter how deeply Germany might mire herself in the morass of moratoriums declared by blunt, bluff Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank...
...which has been a literary sensation throughout France, is an adventure story of one Bardamn, an impressionable young French doctor. Bardamn is caught in the flood tide of the war and when the evil game of killing is ended, finds himself part of the "lost generation," stranded in the mire of post-war degeneration...