Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elections one week ago today democracy triumphed and the people's choice was ushered into office after weeks of cajoling, threatening, mud-slinging, and amateur theatrics. The people, that nebulous mass that determines the nation's fate, can now relax into complacent satisfaction for they have done their duty as citizens and placed in office men in whom they apparently have unbounded confidence...
...Yale Courant," in defending Yale against the attacks of the "Nassau Misc" which finds fault with the excessive sandiness of the Yale football game, delivers itself of the following: "Sand is no doubt disagreeable to certain individuals, but it is entirely preferable to the concoction of mud, cowardice, and sour grapes which the organs of Princeton, Harvard and their New York satellites make a point of aiming at Yale after every Thanksgiving game...
...trial and on expeditions against the Tuaregs, Pere Yakouba added more laurels to his grizzling crown. Now most famed but no longer most respected citizen in Timbuctoo, he himself is not sure he has come the right way after all. Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large dusky family, all he wants to eat, drink, smoke, a good library, a reputation that brings every foreign visitor to his door. But he is not happy. Said he to Seabrook, as the upshot of his life's experience...
Feeding laboratory rats, pinning butterfly specimens onto cards, collecting overdue bills for the college, counting stars on photographic plates, pasting bits of Indian pottery together, digging mud out of fossils--such is the variety of jobs done by undergraduates...
...most eastern soccer teams were playing their opening games in the American Intercollegiate Soccer League, Harvard's booters waded through the mud to a 3-1 victory over Tufts on the Business School field Saturday...