Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted with some regret that Harvard's alleged gentlemen have stooped to the rather common practice of muck-raking. A threatened expose promises the breakdown of the Yale morale for should the integrity of Yale's denizens of the law be questioned, we shudder to calculate the consequences. It is felt that student opinion, for this reason and for loyalty's sake, should stand unitedly behind the "grand old organization," and plans should be formulated to back the Campus Gendarmes with heart and soul...
...boomed Judge Roos at Johannesburg, "that neither General Smuts nor Premier Hertzog is capable of founding a coalition to pull the country out of the muck! If they could I should not be in the arena. As things stand, here...
Cleaning 9 ft. steel tube that winds across California carrying water into Los Angeles, workmen came to the wilderness at Grapevine Canyon 150 mi. north of Los Angeles where the tube pitches down 900 ft. Inside the pipe 16 workmen went to work scraping muck from the slimy walls, lit by a string of electric lights. One man slipped, slid, clutched at the man beneath, broke the light cord. Shouting and clawing, the two men pitched down the steel tunnel 900 ft. into dark and muck, carrying 14 other shouting, clawing men with them in one big bundle. All were...
...searched the country from coast to coast, had made hundreds of experiments. The necessary enzyme Dr. Avery and Rene Jules Dubos, Rockefeller bacteriologist trained by New Jersey's Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, found in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey. (They found it in the muck of the bogs, not in the berries.) When the bog-bred enzyme and Type III pneumococci are mixed in a test tube, the pneumococci are skinned, like Samson lose their potency. The mixture Dr. Avery has injected into mice and rabbits, with no harm ensuing. An injection of the bog-ferment into animals...
...Bostonians went a step farther in that direction, lost great Karl Muck...