Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fund, the amount of which has been caustically exaggerated, was derived from the sale of certain newspaper properties,?? in which almost all of it was invested. The fact that those papers should have prospered naturally excited the envy of journals which were flounder- ing helplessly in the mud...
...Atlanta, Georgia and Georgia Tech plunged into a mighty mud pie, fishing for the Southern Conference championship. The only undefeated major eleven in the land, Georgia (who had despatched Yale) was an easy winner in the prophecies. But forward passes, one thrown, one intercepted, punctured prophecies. Tech sloshed across the muddy goal line twice, score 12-0, took the title...
...marry her some day. He would marry her after he had attained some measure of his magnificent success. For the stranger had said to him: "Go on, young fellow. You are doing fine. The good things in life are not very far off. Avoid those who stick in the mud and cultivate those who are going somewhere." There was plenty of time to marry Millie...
...last of the official touch football games, played yesterday afternoon on the first Freshman field, the Alpha Sigma Phi sextet, of the Interclub League, slashed its way through the mud to down the Whippets, representing the Independent League, by a score...
...Winooski had caused the most distress. Montpelier, Vermont capital, reckoned its mud-crusted damage at six millions...