Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meantime the old man had gone off into the swamp, without ax, hammer, or saw, with the intention of felling trees and building a log house for his family. He has not been heard from since he left...
...years ago a passenger on an Eastern Airliner committed suicide by jumping out 2,000 ft. over a South Carolina swamp. His body was recovered eight months later...
Wyoming was warm, wet and flat 125,000,000 years ago. It was a tropical land dotted by lakes and marshes, webbed by languid rivers. The water was alive with huge reptiles, sleeping, floating, wading, swimming, browsing lazily on the lush water plants and swamp grasses. They were sauropods- long-necked, long-tailed, bullet-headed dinosaurs, weighing 15 or 20 tons...
...months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited to take out the League Commission...
After arriving at training quarters early Saturday afternoon, the Varsity was immediately tested on the Thames River four-mile course, and turned in the time of 21 minutes, 15 seconds in spite of whitecaps which threatened to swamp the shell. Coach Charlie Whiteside appeared pleased by the performance. The Jayvee and Freshman boats paced the Varsity for the first two miles, and both were at least a length, astern at the finish...