Word: sloughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons: 1) The U. S. Congress has not ratified the accord, but will have to take the whole matter up again because this measure passed only the House (TIME, June 14, 1926) but not the Senate. 2) Premier Poincare has been so busy rescuing France from her financial slough of last year, doubling the value of the franc, and tentatively stabilizing it, that no one seriously expected him to make of his debt-funding plans anything but a dark state secret until stability was achieved. Now the question of ratification has begun to loom again, and M. Poincaré answered...
Chicago Stock Exchange has been moribund of late years; trading has been provincial. Midwest security business that obviously should have been transacted in Chicago has gone to Manhattan. This has been a slough out of which R. Arthur Wood, elected president of the exchange last week, hopes to propel his organization...
...city edifice with a revolving electric cross. But the Arrowsmith plot is altered. This time the Castigator, instead of exerting his greatest efforts in harrying a fine-mettled creature to refuge in the wilderness, singles out the biggest boar in sight and hounds him into a gratifyingly slimy slough. The tale has an obscure hero, another Lewisian lie-hunter who, to purge the last bitter dregs of pity and fear, gets his gentle eyes and mouth whipped to a black pulp by the K. K. K. before he is released. But the boar is the chief sacrifice and its name...
Making and taking the breaks of a see-saw football battle in the Bowl, the Blue Bulldogs rose from the slough of four drab Saturdays of defeat, and rode to a 12 to 7 triumph over the Crimson on two deadly accurate field goals by Wadsworth and Bunnell...
...they never do. They just relapse into the tragic, supine, half-dead repose fastened upon them by their traditional weakness. Meanwhile peasant bipod, reddened by centuries of labor, filters in with the drops of dying blue, picks up the burdens-and the authority-that the grand folk slough off. Soon the peasants will be the grand folk...