Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tumbled the Chinese mud houses by tens of thousands, killed more than 3,000 Chinese, injured nearly 10,000. Estimated damage: 10,000,000 yen ($2,860,000). But since the few Japanese live in light wooden houses that shake without falling, scarcely a Japanese was hurt. More important, Formosa's earthquake left practically untouched Japan's oil fields and naval fortifications. Relief workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked...
...Midwest's dust storm silted over her house and her husband's 300-acre wheat farm, Mrs. James Leon Vance recalled the dozen goldfish she kept out in the watering trough. When she went to look at them, she found that dust had made a mud cake of the trough, buried the goldfish...
...Czechoslovakia and Belgium. II Duce's air-tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa the wart, smart Emperor of Abyssinia received guests while fondling three cocker spaniels given him in happier times by Italy's Little King, announced that this week Abyssinia will arraign Italy before he League Council...
Although the Brain Truster last year told the Senators who confirmed his appointment as Undersecretary of Agriculture that he got mud on his boots (when vacationing on his father's fruit farm in upstate New York), his job in life has been not in the fields but at a desk. By the same token his prime enthusiasms do not spring from the sight of an unusually good stand of wheat but rather from the contemplation of an unusual, bold, far-reaching economic idea. Last week he had extraordinary scope for such ideas, for he was about to carry...
...knives and scrapers for leather-working and basketmaking, combs, ointment mortars, receptacles for the kohl with which the women darkened their eyelids. On this level also were tombs which had sunk through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones as carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. One tomb contained 25,000 beads...