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Word: mud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farrell's Harvard teams have beaten Yale only once in the five years he has been head coach. That was last year when Harvard waded through the Stadium mud to beat the Elis 78 to 57. But one of his other teams lost to Yale by one-third of a point and Harvard, although frequently outmanned, never has been smothered by Yale during the Farrell regime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS PREDICTS YALE WIN, GIVES HARVARD CHANCE | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...called upon to navigate a narrow passage between a car parked on one side of the road and a large mudhole on the other. But a winter's inactivity must have impaired his driving eye, for with a lurch and a slither the front wheel buried itself in the mud, and when the Vagabond got out to see the damage only a few grimy spokes emerged from the depth. Always helpless where mechanical resourcefulness is needed, the Vagabond made a few futile attempts at digging with a jack handle and then sat down on the running board to await...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...help him. Next it developed that her husband would not be back until dark, for he had left her there while he fished a nearby brook. She was going on to quote statistics about the length of time various friends of hers had been stuck in that same mud-hole when down the hill clattered a Ford bearing the local representative of the R.F.D. Out he jumped, surveyed the situation, and then attacked a road-side sapling with an axe he carried in his car. With the aid of this and a few flat stones to serve for what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...field limousine for shooting on the moors is a Crossley, each rear wheel fitted with two tires to give double traction in mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...none of her past work presaged the ambitious conception, the flights of rhetoric displayed in her present work, which is the story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes of pure intellect, and his wife Ann who reached for realms of pure spirit only to be dragged back to the slough of human passions. The human types chosen to epitomize extant evolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evolution in Parvo | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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