Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours later, the so-called "Moroccan War" (TIME, May 11, 1925, et seq.) was again proceeding in desultory fashion. French aviators flew over Riffian mud-hovels dropping expensive bombs. French infantry advanced in the region of Kert conjointly with Spanish troops which moved upon Azib de Midar...
...Gobi desert was one of the expedition's objectives. But progress was very slow. In many places the roads were mere gullies worn 20 to 30 feet below the surface of the surrounding country by the countless years of travel over them. In the rains these roads became mud sloughs. The expedition actually considered itself fortunate if it was able to cover 20 miles a day in the carts in which it went as far as Suchow in Kansu. Here it changed the carts for camels and turned northward...
...China," continued the account of Mr. Warner's journey, in reply discussing the external nature of the country, are, as has been said before, the last word in bad construction. In fact little or no construction is evident. When it rains, the sunken tracks become actual rivers of mud. Across the desert roads are practically negligible. The Gobi desert is itself an immense expanse of sand and rocks stretching over what seem almost illimitable distances. Out of the more or less even plain of the desert, huge, weather-worn cliffs that tower up perpendicularly as for instance the magnificent organ...
Golconda, Ill., yielded a 17-foot mastodon spine from four yards of mud on the Ohio River bank...
...human arm bone, embedded in caked mud and surrounded by a long string of bracelets, is the most striking feature of the collection of Indian relics which Mr. C. B. Cosgrove has brought back with him from New Mexico. Mr. Cosgrove, who has just returned to Cambridge, has spent the last two years in charge of the Peabody Museum expedition in the Mimbres Valley in south-western New Mexico...