Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerful Varsity swimming team will move one step nearer crucial with the Elis when they are favored to swamp the Navy at Annapolis tonight. Harvard, tied with Yale, Is in the League lead with an undefeated team, while the sallors are in last place and can't boast of a single win over an E.I.S.L. opponent. They are not likely to start tonight for the Crimson team has a wealth of material, and only the Yale bugaboo stands between them and the championship...
...Last week, however, a Lockheed Electra of Compañia Mexicana de Aviación, subsidiary of Pan American Airways, crashed and burned with nine aboard in a jungle swamp near Vera Cruz...
...fresh bread dunked in soup. Crisscrossed by bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still got next to nowhere. At last Engineer Abbot Atwood Lane of Gulf Oil Corp. thought up a contraption combining the best...
...said it would sail Jan. 16, with a ski-slide on deck, to get skiers to St. Moritz in ten days. Skiing down the side of a skyscraper is unpractical, but John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Radio City did the next best thing by announcing that it would swamp the sunken plaza, which is a tourist restaurant in summer, to make the first skating pond on Fifth Avenue since the Plaza Hotel was a frog pond...
...informal scrimmage with Northeastern University, at the end of last week's practice, the Varsity basketball team tallied 25 baskets to swamp their Husky opponents, who were successful in completing only three throws at the basket...