Word: slush
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lands where the thermometer does not jump frantically from forty degrees below zero in six hours; where one can wake up in the morning without the dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks, and not have to step gingerly along, expecting each moment to sink ankle deep...
...fight between a freshman and a professor's ten year old son occurred on the campus last Thursday noon. After a severe tussle the freshman gained the advantage. If the boy had been one year older he would have wiped up the slush with the '89 man. A snow ball is a very small thing to cause such a waste of physical energy. Cornell...
Another instalment of snow has come upon the already burdened yard. The exclamations of surprise and admiration which greeted it yesterday morning are destined eventually to become cries of deepest despair, as the unsuspecting pedestrian sinks ankle or knee deep into the "beautiful snow" changed to slush. There are four things a Harvard man should not bo without, for they are essential to his college career, if he would have that career a successful one. He needs money to pay his bills, brains to get his degree, and a stout pair of rubber boots that may be strapped over...
...yard walks are in an indeterminate state, midway between a condition of slush and that which must have existed in the glacial period...
...stratum of slush so soft and nice...