Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news of the many competitions which face the undergraduate at Harvard a new and difficult problem is open to the newcomer who is eager to make good and have much about which to write home. To the average Freshman, a University as large as Harvard is a great morass in which to lose oneself ignominiously unless he starts out on the right foot and immediately tries for every competition for which he can force the time. From football managership to Lampoon Board he starts them all in an effort to make good in the first few months of college life...
...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...
...between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort to distract an enraged public from the malodorous morass of L'Affaire Stavisky...
...other his eyes can feast upon the expanse of grass. From Holworthy to Wigglesworth, from Thayer unto Strauss he can take pride in both those plots of grass that still survive. He can erect a bronze tablet in honor of those brave young blades that pushed through the morass in front of Sever. He can rejoice, too, in the saving that the Maintenance Department effected for the Budget when it failed to order grass seed...
...would like to know what on earth persuaded you to give up your six-page paper. You appeared to me to have found for the first time in your history a constructive way out of the morass of bulletin-board take journalism which had characterized your columns in the so-called "golden-days" before the six came in. I am told that the progressive editors of your paper were over-ruled by the stick-in-the-muds who had retired from active work. They were of the opinion that an arm-chair sheet, with fat salaries and dull stories...