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...follow ticklers in literature and fine arts. In the trial question booklet figure such propositions as where is the Slough of Despond described? or during the reign of what monarch was the most beautiful translation of the Bible into English published...
...theorist has constructed a powerful new theory, he is likely to become fond of it and spend much energy polishing and protecting it. To more than one scientist who contemplated last week's apparently fruitless meeting in Warsaw, it seemed likely that when theory emerges from its present slough, young minds with fresh imaginations will show...
...flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever, gyp salesmen, rousing revival meetings, fighting and good catfishing at Beaver Slough...
...perched on an island in the Mississippi River, which divides Illinois from Missouri. Kaskaskia had lost its chief distinction long before 1881, when the meandering Mississippi changed its channel from the west of Kaskaskia Island to the east, washing away part of the town and leaving a willowy, uninhabited slough which now stretches west between Kaskaskia's 107 inhabitants and the old Missouri shore. Kaskaskia proper still belongs to Illinois. Whether the slough, known as Kaskaskia Commons, belongs to Illinois or Missouri is a question which neither State has troubled to settle, but which last week came...
...blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres of rich Greene County were flooded. Army Engineers tried to save the St. Francis River levees in Missouri, but in the face of rising water or- dered their 1,500 workers and their families to flee for their lives. At Blytheville, Ark. guards...