Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hollow pipe, in 30-ft. lengths screwed together. A powerful steam engine on the surface spins the pipe and the bit. When a bit needs changing, all the pipe must be snaked out of the hole and then lowered again by the derrick. The pipe is kept full of mud to counteract the gas pressures below, which might otherwise blow out destructively...
...Once there was a woman that had done a big washing and hung it on the line. The line broke and let it fall down in the mud, but she didn't say a word: only did it all over again, and this time spread it on the grass, where it couldn't fall...
...Governor. So Senator Joe Guffey and Miner John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle for the Senatorial nomination. To add to the confusion, Governor Earle's ousted State's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti ran for Governor...
...stands. Even stretch-running Dauber could never make up that distance. Suddenly a roar went up. "Look at Dauber!" The Du Pont colt had suddenly started to flash past the horses in front of him as though they were telegraph poles. He overtook them one by one, splashing mud in their blinkered faces, finished seven lengths in front of the tired crop of three-year-olds who found the mile-and-three-sixteenths too long a distance...
...champion now regarded as the Man o' War among leapfrogs because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world's record, hopping the mighty hop of 15 ft. 10 in. He was promptly acclaimed the jumpingest frog...