Word: slough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performed this trick twice. Back somewhere in the go's the best my time-dimmed memory will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case no one was hurt...
...favorite hymn was "Weary of earth and laden with my sin." At the tender age of eight he hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide. He was restrained from any such self violence, however, by the desire to know more mathematics. Be emerged from this adolescent slough of despond to enjoy a happy and fruitful manhood. In "The Conquest of Happiness" Mr. Russell lays down his method in achieving this amazing metamorphosis with the hope that his experiences may be of some use to the world at large...
...city of Chicago sinks deeper and deeper into the slough of indebtedness: meanwhile the royal vultures of England hover overhead, circling nearer and nearer, patiently waiting for her last gasping struggles...
...undergraduate, teaching as a fine art will be somewhat slighted. Yet one is inclined to believe, that by more knowledge of and consideration for the students' capabilities and less attention to the existence of Manter Hall, the general level of examining might be lifted from its present slough...