Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polly Moran, who has grown rich running a city beauty parlor. Both have daughters. One daughter steals the other's sweetheart. Most of the dialog is a wrangle between Misses Dressier and Moran. None of it is very funny. Typical shot: Miss Dressier shoving Miss Moran into a mud bath...
...York University a tie in their post-season charity game, but Colgate blocked the kick. Colgate 7, N. Y. U. 6. North Carolina's punting quarterback, Johnny Branch, held Duke at bay, but that was not all his team had to do. The scoreless tie played in the mud gave Duke the State championship, since North Carolina had been beaten by Davidson. Although outrushed by eleven first downs to seven, a Tom-Thumb team from Rice amazed a crowd in Houston, Tex., by trimming Iowa State 13 to 7. Carnegie Tech's passes-McCurdy to Kavel-brought...
...line of sea investigation an 800 pound sounding tube is plunged into the ocean floor, in order to bring to the surface a core of mud three or more feet in length...
Quite often the tube must be dropped 2,000 to 3,000 fathoms in order to reach the bottom. Because of the slow accumulation of sediment in midocean this tiny core of mud may represent thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. Scientific interest lies in measuring the thickness of these stratifications of mud cores in order to determine former changes in depth and climate. Telegraph companies are particularly interested in this work, because they wish to learn how fast matter accumulates on the sea bottom in order to avoid laying cables in regions where the rate of deposition...
Notre Dame's unbeaten team, dead tired of football, kept plugging the Army line, but could not score until Halfback Schwartz ran 54 yards down the mud-puddled, sludgy field for a touchdown in the last five minutes. A drenched crowd of 110,000 went wild when Army blocked a Notre Dame punt and Left End King fell on it for a touchdown, but a swarm of blue shirts broke through and blocked the dropkick. Notre Dame 7. Army...