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...excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary Nestor. Any ten-year-old boy could have told him that girl mush and Tom Swift just did not mix. To many a saddened fan it seemed best that Tom should...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences spent some four million dollars 20 years ago; last year the figures had risen above nine. Expenditures for the Dining Halls mush-roomed from one million to three million dollars...
...Smith hurried to East London, but before he arrived, the fish had disintegrated. Its soft parts had turned to mush, leaving only its bones and armorlike scales. Then & there Dr. Smith swore an ichthyological oath: he would find another coelacanth. Somewhere in East African waters there must be more of them...
...weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel. A coelacanth had been caught, said Hunt, in the Mozambique Channel near Madagascar. Dr. Smith had better come quick, before it turned to mush like the other...
Finally Davison quelled some alumni protest by stating that the term sentimental mush "was merely a press fabrication...