Word: morass
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...winds playing with the leaves of the Delphic oracle could have wrought no more havoc than students attempting to discover preceding examination papers from the morass at Widener. One presumes that in their pristine state the files were blessed with a certain system and order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets...
From that vantage point he scanned the then desperate financial morass of Austria and displayed the courage, vision and leadership to persuade his people to seek financial rehabilitation through virtually placing the national finances in the hands of a receiver: The League of Nations. As everyone knows League fiscal control of Austria was terminated only this year (TIME, July 12) after the country had made one of the most sensationally rapid fiscal recoveries in history. Perhaps never before did a statesman lead his people in the unprecedented course of placing their national purse strings in foreign hands...
...frenzy of suppression has seized the regulators of morality. Not satisfied with exposing their humorloss deficiencies by calling a parody an intentional blasphemy, the postal authorities have taken another misstep into the morass of moral judgment in refusing the use of the mails to the Dial number of the Advocate. The definition of obscenity is one of the most perilous tasks which confront the executive. It is a judgment which must be made with modesty and diffidence rather than with the arrogance and assertiveness of the present suppression...
Last week the Post announced the death of the man who had been its editor for 33 years, the man who had led it out of the morass. For several years he had been confined to his home by illness. But even on the very day of his death he wrote two editorials. A few hours later he was dead...
...humorous weekly, prodded President Coolidge for offering Europe aid after the reparations tangle had been unraveled. In a political cartoon, Mr. Coolidge is seen standing on the bank while he watches Dame Europa floundering in the reparations swamp. Says "Cal": "As soon as you have extricated yourself from the morass in which you are now wallowing I will be happy, Madame, to summon assistance...