Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largely being taken from the bottom of the basin. Borings were taken at 500 foot intervals each way over the entire extent of the basin to determine the character of the river bed and the depths of the various strata. In general, the bottom consists of a layer of mud and silt, under which is a layer of gravel, and below this is clay or hard pan. A curious thing that was made apparent, after dredging began, was that in sections of the basin there are large beds of oyster shells where the river flowed before the dam was constructed...
Pastmaster at exorcising goatish emanations from rural England's maids, meadows, men and mud, Author Powys sticks to his increasingly familiar incantation like a leech. As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar. Only one newcomer is in the book, Last Comer Death...
...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
This was a threat the rest of the world could not ignore. Until 1840 Shanghai was little more than a second rate Chinese city sitting on a mud flat at the mouth of the turbulent Yangtze River, but in 1842 Britain defended her right to sell dope to the Chinese by fighting and winning the Opium War. Shanghai was made one of five Treaty Ports opened to foreign trade. Other nations saw the importance of the city. France and the U. S. acquired territorial concessions there. Shanghai became the funnel mouth for half the commerce of China. Today...
While the Royal Family fights for public favor, its fighting has always been ethical. Brother throws mud at another Brother. The reason is clearly discernible in the camaraderie that marks such large meetings of No. 1 motormakers as the New York Show. There was much satisfaction over the presence of John North Willys, much talk of "His Excellency" since he is now Ambassador to Poland. More personal satisfaction came to Walter P. Chrysler. For De Soto's success entitled its Chrysler-son-in-law chief, Byron C. Foy, to full-fledged membership in the Royal Family. Beams were caused...