Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over 1,216½ acres of what had been for years either swamp or unregenerate dump heap, squads of workers have been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June. Their job is to transfer about 7,000,000 cubic yards of ashes from the ash dunes of Flushing and Riker's Island to the swamps nearby, leveling off and grading a Fair ground. By day the dust clouds of their operations can be seen from the offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles...
Colleges, Biggest crowd of the week (73,000) saw Ohio State swamp New York University, 60-to-0, at Columbus. At Berkeley, Calif., St. Mary's nosed out California, 10-to-0. At New Haven, Yale won the first Yale-Cornell game in 47 years...
...average business man would thus acquire an education equivalent to that of a Harvard sophomore on probation. Similarly, Harvard's national scholarships are declared to be doomed, as the omnipotent junior colleges would become purely local institutions (of equal status and desirability, of course!) and the "inevitable tendency" would swamp Harvard's feeble efforts to stem its onrushing tide...
...Rain. Following Italy's successful war to conquer the Ethiopian Empire in a single dry season, there began the war of pacification which may well last years. With it came the awful rains which turn much of Ethiopia yearly into a swamp...
...pencilled notes, ''Yellow Legs, Fire Island-The Good Old Days!"; "Wings of the River Ducks, Monroe Marshes, 1909. All Drakes"; "Pintails-They come in like no other ducks." Best picture in the book: "Woodcock-October Flight," a plate with the violet of early evening on swamp alders, and the big yellow moon coming over the mountain, easily a match for Rex Brasher's more meticulous rendition of the same ghostly little subject...