Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previous diversions of Great Lakes water by Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. Other states bordering the Great Lakes are fighting this diversion tooth and nail in the courts. Their Congressmen have grown hoarse and damp-eyed relating piteous tales of the mud flats, grounded steamers and stricken trade resulting from fallen lake levels. The matter has been reported in "threatening" terms by Canadians to their Parliament...
...Connecticut seven squat little ships rode the grey waves of the Atlantic at dawn one sombre morning last week; a thousand men waited the order to "Blow her out" which would start the sunken submarine S-51 toward the surface from off her slimy bier in the ocean mud...
...play in which a man openly tried to seduce a young girl. (The Mud Turtle...
...What caused mud to fall from the skies...
Three grave officers-Lieutenants Barksdale, Lockwood, Amis-examined the laundry of London, pock-marked with gobs of oily dirt. Then the officers rendered their decision-the stains, fallen from heaven upon the sheets, were not oil, engine grease or any airplane droppings. No, the stains were mud. Perhaps it had been raining mud. This is exactly what had happened. In other cities the same phenomenon occurred. A high wind had carried dust into the atmosphere until saturation brought dust and water down together. . . . Flyers were vindicated...