Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy dredging canals and ditches so his muskrats can swim deep in winter and grub for roots underneath the ice, using the mud to build up the banks so there will be plenty of slick slopes for them to slide down in their leisure hours. Next week Mr. Gibbs will fly down to North Carolina to see how his muskrats are doing. Though he does not plan to do any trapping there till 1939, in five years he expects to be catching 25,000 a season...
...same week last year. The National Industrial Conference Board announced that employment had fallen 6.4% since August.* Lumber and power output slipped again, and national advertising lineage in newspapers was 16% lower than last year. About the only thing that could have halted a market slide in the face of such statistics was good news from Washington. This there had been for Little Business, in that part of the President's address to Congress which favored lowering their taxes. The stockmarket, however, is dominated by Big Business...
Seven Fellowships from this fund, each carrying a large stipend, are available this year, and December 15 is the closing date for applications. An unmarried undergraduate desirous of sugaring a sound American education with the cultured icing of a year in England cannot afford to let slide this opportunity through neglect or indifference...
...Oregon huskies dumped them off a bridge into the icy brook to join some 150 of their fellows. But the insult to Oregon had not yet been washed off. Up Skinner's Butte the dripping invaders were driven to be set to painting the "O" yellow again. "Slide them down!" yelled an Oregon girl. Dipped in yellow paint, the Staters were sent scooting down the steep 50-ft. sides of the "O" to paint it with the seats of their pants. By nightfall the streets of Eugene were strewn with strips of clothing, eleven motorists had been arrested...
Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...