Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Government) "There are too many floating islands in this dismal swamp. They are anchored to the President technically, but are responsible to nobody...
...Gobi Desert of Mongolia for traces of man's origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity of the devil to survive." Obviously the statement is a rhetorical exaggeration by Dr. Cameron. The Gobi was once a lake, once a swamp. Dr. Cameron's idea is that man as a distinct anthropoid began in the withering Kalahari Desert of British Bechuanaland...
Firemen tried a hose, could not swamp student ardor. Reluctantly, at last, the police opened fire upon the mob, killing, wounding, restoring order...
After lagging behind the Wesleyan five for the greater part of the first half, the University basketball team forged ahead to swamp the Middletown team 41 to 24, in a swift and hard fought game on the Hemenway court last night. A few minutes before the close of the first period a sudden spurt brought the University quintet into the lead, the half ending...
Anticipating critics who would say that to let the War Department place "educational" orders would swamp the War Department with demands for patronage, Secretary Davis referred again to the existing shortage of reserve munitions. Moreover, he pointed out that powder grows old. Small-arm ammunition lives 10 years; artillery shells, 20 years. Also, the War Department has many a new type of gun which it wants to try out. Requests for orders would come no faster than the War Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale...