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...swung his crutches over the puddle, lifting his cast and its wooly sock carefully so it wouldn't splash in the slush. The crutch tips banged solidly against the sidewalk; Vag raised them again, and then plunged them into the crust of melting snow at the end of a driveway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

...signs of spring are easy to find. Some are tangible, like the slush running into the catch basin at the foot of Plympton Street. Some lie in the substitution of a word; Bermuda replaces North Conway in the eager travel advertisements. Some germinate between the gray covers of a course catalogue; spring brings the Taxonomy of Flowering Plants (Biology 103) and Seepage and Ground Water Flow (Engineering 262b...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Birthday | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...capital's slush, compounded partly of black Serbian mud, made walking hazardous. But most Belgraders walked; the city's insufficient trolley cars were so packed that the press called them sardine boxes. The homeward trek at nightfall conveys a strange sense of depressed urgency. Many Belgraders do not feel safe anywhere between their homes and their work; they flit off the streets like ghosts fleeing a graveyard at dawn. Here & there, watching the crowds from street corners or hotel lobbies, stood men either in uniform or in ankle-length black leather coats-which in the popular mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report On Yugoslavia: A Search for Laughter | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

Slosh Through Slush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improvements on Sidewalk Halted | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

While the man in the street curses and stumbles in the slush, the ski team is getting ready to move into its annual period of between-term activity on New England's choicest slopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Renews Winter Schedule | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

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