Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most numerous group of investigators maintained that the building was sinking, and that this would cause the break. The were supported by two important bits of evidence: one, the site of Eliot House was merely a reclaimed swamp and not to be trusted anyway; and two, the pipes were broken about a feet away from the foundation wall of the building, just where the leverage would cause the greatest pressure...
Next day when she buzzed off toward Rio, her luck ran out. Missing her way over the jungle, she bogged down for the night with a leaking fuel tank in a swamp 60 mi. from...
Second ($600) and third ($500) prizes went respectively to Gardenville, N. Y.'s Charles Burchfield for a large brownish watercolor of a logger's shed in a gloomy cypress swamp in wintertime, and to Woodstock's Henry Mattson for a seascape of wild waves and seagulls painted in fuzzy Cezannesque technique...
Ervin Lang's torso, wrapped in a blanket, was found in a swamp across the Indiana line. Headlines: TORSO MURDER; SWAMP MURDER. The legs, neatly sawed with the trousers, socks and shoes still on, were presently found seven miles away in a trunk. Evelyn Smith and her Chinese husband, Harry Jung, had vanished. For a week yellow men traveling with white women were detained all through the Midwest. The Press billed the crime as an endpoint of miscegenation. Fears were expressed that the "sinister Oriental," Harry Jung, had killed his white wife to make his getaway. This billing...
...Russians showed Laval Moscow and he found himself impressed with the fact that Moscow is a brisk, clean, modern metropolis, not a shambles in a swamp. They showed him, the first foreigner ever to see it, the great military air camp at Monino, the planes that might some day conceivably be called on to help France stand off Germany. Gaily the Russians did mass parachute jumping, their favorite way of showing off, spelled out in plane formations the letters "R. F." for République Franchise. "I have an unforgettable impression . . ." said M. Laval...