Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
...Casagrande found that a hard dry piece of clay when compressed becomes soft mud because clay is made up of minute mineral particles and voids filled with water. Compression gradually forces the water out, the rate of consolidation depending on the depth of the strata and the weight supported. A classic example of the subsidence is the Tower of Pisa, which furnishes fairly accurate data on the factors of weight and shape. Mistakes in foundation engineering are responsible for more damage and loss of life than all other causes combined...
Frost draws water from the soil beneath and causes heaving of pavements; in the spring the liberated water filters through the soil again, making mud with no supporting power. Among the projects Dr. Casagrande has in mind is laboratory investigation of the action of frost in soils, rocks, and building stones...
...recent "Crime," reference was made to "plump maidens, attired in healthy bloomers, who shriek with delight as they force their Lotharios to wallow in the mud"; these being the girls from Winsor. The writer, adding insult to injury, associated these same girls with some whom a "gentleman" could not identify as male or female. And later in this same article, the author mentions "the menace of Winsor." We think these remarks in very bad taste, especially when one considers the fact that the very girls whom the unknown author accuses of being unmaidenly are the same with whom he does...
...bored with those enthusiastic Freshmen who find a tasty repast for the athletic field in the young ladies from Miss Winsor's. Our Romeoetical complexes never have been satisfied by plump maidens, attired in healthy bloomers, who shriek with delight as they force their Lotharios to wallow in the mud. It is too reminiscent of the gentleman who told us the other day that he was fond of one girl when he was unable to tell whether she was male or female...