Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Penn. Franklin Field was one vast, miserable mud puddle, but 5,000 spectators turned out in the rain to see the ½mi. anchor-leg duel in the sprint medley between Indiana's Charles ("Chuck") Hornbostel and Princeton's William ("Bonny") Bonthron. Hornbostel's team mates gave him an advantage of 4 yd. at the start, but the spectacled Hoosier runner, who looks more like some obscure grind in a chemistry department than a track captain, did not need it. At the finish. Bonthron 6 yd. behind. Next day Indiana also won the one-and two-mile...
...example will illustrate this point unfortunately well and will serve as an all too fitting conclusion. Here is Miss Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where was that 'Great Cause' now? Right before them, sunk in the mud, so they would have answered...
...there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. ... All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster of 1929 [TIME, March 5]." Few anonymous commentators on the political scene have received better advertising out of Washington...
...State game refuge. At intervals in the next nine years Pennsylvania's Game Commission imported 46 more pairs. The beavers settled down to stay. Needing deep water for their island lodges, they gnawed down trees, floated them through canals of their own making, gathered up sticks, stones and mud. With their strong front paws they packed all such material together in high, solid dams (see cut). Their houses, too, they built of sticks & mud, above water on solid foundations down to pond bottom. la oven-shaped, mud-floored rooms about 3 ft. square, 2ft. high many a young beaver...
Last week most of Pennsylvania's beavers stayed safely inside their big stick & mud lodges while trappers waited for warm weather to thaw out streams and ponds. With 50,000 trappers in prospect, the Game Commission has limited each one to ten traps, a catch of not more than six beavers during the season. No beaver may be dug or smoked from his lodge, or shot except when found alive in a trap. But the wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling...