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...enormous trucks, all-wheel drive, extra-heavy duty, able to haul almost anything almost anywhere. Only ten years old, it has sold thousands of square-hooded, locomotive-like behemoths to lumbermen, miners, oilmen, highway departments. In the Louisiana oil fields M-H trucks are called "Mud Cats" because they slosh through hub-deep mud as though equipped with web wheels, in Western lumber camps they climb rough 40° grades so easily they are known as "Mountain Goats." In all, M-H has 33 models, going from five to 35 tons with six driving wheels, twelve forward and four reverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Mud Cats & Mountain Goats | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

With 10,000 public pools to slosh in, crack swimmers have increased 200% since the water-wing days of competitive swimming. Consequently, the turnover in swimming champions is probably greater than in any other U. S. sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pool Sharks | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...shining, the air was like early summer last week on the campus of Princeton University. The duckboards which protect the feet of undergraduates and teachers from the mud and slosh of New Jersey winters were still in place along the paths, but earth smells arose from the drying ground, excited birds skittered in the shrubbery, squirrels chattered in the trees. Students went to classes without neckties, and in the afternoons an elderly man with soft, inquisitive eyes and a flowing halo of white hair ambled in & out of Fine Hall, pausing to admire the changing season. He had always felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exile in Princeton | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Neighbors gathered. The plasterer, whistling cheerfully at his work, continued to slosh plaster. At 12:15 p. m. House holder Machon stepped forward, dropped on both knees. "Haro! Haro! Haro!" he cried slowly and distinctly, "a I'aide mon prince, on me fait tort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ha, Rollol | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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