Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenant on Friend Butte's farm near Johnstown, Ohio, was desolated by the death of a valuable prize sow on August 16," explained Dr. Mather to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Determined to give the sow a decent buried, he carried its carcass to a swamp in one corner of the property and began to dig a grave. A few feet below the surface, he struck a hard substance with his shovel. Temporarily diverted, he cleared away the soil from the hard substance and discovered a giant ivory tusk...
During his absence, Friend Butte, who owned the swamp where his tenant had started the sow's obsequies, claimed the huge skeleton which was being excavated. In a brief legal action, he obtained possession and promptly sold the find to Max Hirschberg, a Newark, Ohio, business man, for $5,000 cash...
Peter, called "The Great," died in his sullen city on the swamp. His beard then took its revenge and sprouted violently under the coffin lid; in time it, too, grew tired. Meanwhile the rug that had carried the forgiveness of Persia hung upon the wall of Leopold I, Sovereign under the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Hungary. Two weeks ago a Scotch art dealer landed in Manhattan. He had a trunk with him. The rug was in the trunk...
...soldiers to squat down on their present position and wait until spring, when the present torrential rains will cease. Already more rain has fallen during October than the average total precipitation for both October and November. In the French sector, every road is a bog, every valley is a swamp...
...sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp, for instance, would be like turning the Yosemite into an onion garden or Yellowstone Park into a factory town." She advocated, as wardens of such a preserve, the Seminole Indians! "They have a deep sense of the sanctity of an obligation...