Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue. In Santa Cruz, Calif., T. H. Campbell returned home one evening to find that swamp gases, blowing over his house, had transformed its gleaming white paint to bright orange...
ITHACA. N. Y., Jan. 12 Trailing by three points at the intermission, Harvard tied the count at 26 to 26 early in the second half, but Cornell moved easily ahead to swamp the Crimson, 56 to 39, in an Eastern Intercollegiate basketball game played at Barton Hall Saturday night before 7,000 spectators...
...darkness that fell black as a pall when the fuel was consumed, Hostess Ferguson and the other survivors worked in the mud and the scattered wreckage for two hours before rescuers reached them. The injured and the dead had to be carried through knee-deep muck to flat-bottomed swamp boats, then ferried across the estuary to ambulances. It took all night and all the next day before the grim and bloody work was done...
Carville, isolated in an unhealthy swamp on the Mississippi, 75 miles north of New Orleans, was founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1894 as a lepers' retreat. The Federal Government took it over in 1921. Patients are still called "inmates." Most use fictitious, names, to protect their families. Their outgoing letters are sterilized before mailing. They occupy their time with bicycling, movies, reading, dances, golfing on a small links. They are allowed visitors and two weeks' leave at home each year, but visits home are difficult because lepers may not travel on trains, buses or other common...
...spattered, well-battered Varsity soccer team dropped its second game of the season to a fast Dartmouth eleven by a score of 3 to 0 on Chase Field at Hanover last Saturday. The heavy rain which fell for most of the morning turned the field into something resembling a swamp with the results that players had a difficult time trying to run or handle the slippery, soggy ball...