Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present paved streets in Tokyo are as rare as pearls in Cape Cod oysters. Sidewalks are non-existent outside of a small business district. The street car system is antiquated, and there is no sanitary sewage system. In rainy weather the mud in the streets is so deep that people are obliged to go about their business in rubber boots...
...soccer team, which has been hindered from using its regular field on account of mud had its first real outdoor work yesterday. In accordance with the new plan of adopting the English system of play. Coach W. R. Welch instructed the candidates in the method of giving the ball a twist when kicking goals after fouls. The forward line also practiced passing and ways of breaking up opposing team work...
...soothingly on the grease, mud and avert the skid demon...
...messenger, splattered with mud and faint with fatigue, arrived in Moab today with the news that the Piutes had surrounded the town of Blanding. All communication with the outside world had been cut off, so this man had volunteered to ride through the lines and carry the bad news to Moab. Immediately the street began to fill with prairie-schooners, and stern-faced men whose eyes were full of the loneliness of the plains. Each man had a square gray beard, and an old musket under an arm which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon...
Delcassé was Foreign Minister 1898-1905. His way was beset with the thorns of imperial rivalries. Due to a military incident war with England was threatened over Fashoda, a mud village in the heart of Africa. Later, when diplomatic relations had been strengthened by the Entente Cordiale, came the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Tangiers with the ulterior object of testing the young Franco-British friendship. The visit caused the downfall of Delcassé, but his diplomatic triumph became evident in later years when Germany found that her filibustering attempts in Morocco had succeeded in alienating the whole...