Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political fortunes of former Prime Minister Edouard Herriot, he is always Mayor of Lyons, has been so for 25 years. He rose from a sickbed to do what he could at the scene of the disaster. By nightfall only three bodies had been recovered from the river of mud. Said Commandant Pegout of the Fire Department...
Taking off from the Harlem River in his seaplane Ethiopia I, the Black Eagle attempted a flight to Ethiopia in 1924, landed on the mud flats of Flushing Bay, explained: "Pontoon trouble...
Albie Booth, who personally beat the Army last year, was the only player who had a 'chance of doing any open field running in the rain and mud at New Haven last week. As soon as he got in the game he intercepted a pass, but Army tacklers roughed him so thoroughly that he left immediately on a stretcher. The rest of the game was a dull pushing contest between two good lines, with the Army line better but not good enough to do the trick. Yale 7, Army...
...method, party loyalty and convictions are reduced to mere habits of voting. Perhaps if the, voters were able to force the issue on a burning question such as Prohibition there would be less cant and hypocrisy in the party in power, and elections would be something more than personal mud-slinging contests. The present American party system is the most ingenious yet devised to obscure any question of vital interest to the voter. It is no wonder that politics as a vocation is rather unpopular among American college graduates. If only for the reason of some definite set of principles...
...architecture so much can and should be said that this article would not suffice even to begin it. It is of importance, however, to mention that the construction is of mud brick with frequent use of baked brick for pavements, lower hall facings, and water channels...