Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Year after year they had vanished into Japan like wanderers sucked into the mud of a fever swamp-the men of Hong Kong, of Bataan and Wake, men of the ships sunk at sea, the planes shot down in combat. Last week they were found-those who were still alive...
Little College. Sleepy, sloppy, 38-year-old Brick Fleagle organized his 16-man club after commercial bands rejected many of his arrangements as too hot to handle. Today the band has a "book" of 50 compositions, 48 of them by Brick (Fried Piper, Frost on the Moon, Swamp Mist, etc.). It also has a waiting list of about fifty musicians...
Good Riddance. In Raleigh, N.C., the state board of education sold a piece of swamp land called Purgatory, hoped to dispose next of neighboring Hell...
Frontier Mother. George Norris' father was a farmer living in the "Black Swamp" country of northern Ohio. George was only three when his father died. But he remembered his mother well. In his recollection of her, Mary Magdalene Norris emerges as the archetype of frontier woman...
Expecting to swamp the CRIMSON's stalwart nine, the hahahasters unwittingly challenged their erstwhile opponents to a meeting on the field of baseball. Realizing his irretrievable error, O. J. Zwoncus '49, Poon prexy, yesterday bemoaned his fate, "Holy cheest, we ain't got a chance...