Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author's relatives and found that they also, oddly enough, were divided in their opinions. Some of them would not discuss the book at all. One of them-a doctor- said: "Well-Evans certainly did call a spade a spade. I lived right at the edge of the swamp for a good many years and those conditions really did exist-and I suppose they still...
...peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers located the plane, extricated Goldsborough. They carried him eight miles to Bennington where he died next day?his 20th birthday...
Died. Kirk Munroe, 79, boys' author (The Flamingo Feather, Through Swamp and Glade, Campmates, Raftmates, Canoemates - 30 others) ; aide in exploration of routes for Santa Fe and Northern Pacific R. R.'s (1867-68) friend of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill; first editor of Harper's Round Table (1879-82); founder (1880) at Newport, R. I., of the League of American Wheelmen; after a long-standing nervous ailment; at Orlando...
Real Wages. "Economic research and social work are as characteristic of Western civilization as Ford cars, chain stores, radio sets, talking pictures, and tabloid papers with screaming headlines. Social workers seem more like engineers planning to reclaim a swamp than zealots trying to convert the heathen."?Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, director of research at the National Bureau of Economic Re-search and chairman of President Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends. He observed that the record of earnings for the 19th and 20th Centuries in England and the U. S. has been one of alternating gains and losses...
Every year Dr. Rudolfs makes a trade with the swamp eagles: He gives them blood, they give him information. Not many availed themselves of the trade last week as the Jersey mosquitoes have not yet attained their summer cloud proportions. When plentiful later on in the summer they will give Dr. Rudolfs at least ten bites per minute...