Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats in his bedroom with Audubon's rare violin, bears witness to backwoods eccentricity and hospitality. Floods, prairies, a great pine swamp, the canebrakes of the Ohio, midwinter moose "yards" in Canada, squatters on the Mississippi, the death of a pirate on the Gulf of Mexico- these and scores of other matters the robust wanderer found time and energy to write down, usually by candle or pineknot light after a long...
Chicago's "outer drive" (speedway over reclaimed lake-swamp land from North Side to South Side) will be named for Viking Leif (pronounced Life) Ericsson. Reason: he may have discovered America before Columbus; Columbus is now commonplace as thoroughfare designation; local Norwegians were active...
...Texas, inspired by his California colleagues, an Associated Press correspondent telegraphed: "Bullfrogs migrating from one swamp to another caused a traffic jam on a highway near Houston . . . almost impossible to get through...
...period of which Mr. Spinden tells is from 1670 to 1894 when the Mosquito Kings ruled a wide territory of swamp and jungle and the Mosquito fleets barred a thousand miles of reefrimmed shore line. The dynasty of Oldman the First ruled through these two and a quarter centuries...
...years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo. This fifth one, four feet high, maltese grey, was to tour U.S. zoos, guided by Collector George H. Bistany, who had braved malaria and homesickness to wait, near a broad spreading cactus bush in a Nile valley swamp, until the bird's mother hatched him and led him toddling forth with brothers and sisters...