Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operating like a modern freezer, preserved the carcass intact for thousands of years. In temperate New Zealand there was no permafrost but in South Island's Pyramid Valley paleontologists have found a good substitute. From about 18,000 B.C. until 2,-000 years ago, the valley contained a swamp whose lush vegetation attracted moas-great, flightless birds which weighed up to a quarter...
...Americans sure are funny people," said one of the workmen. "They'll cut each other's throat for a nickel, but when one of them gets in trouble, they'll sure get out and swamp for him." No one thought of pay. "I haven't heard the word mentioned," growled Raymond Hill, the city engineer who directed the operations...
Yacht Club men took advantage of rough seas yesterday afternoon to swamp the Marblehead Yacht Club, 172-153. The two clubs were tied at the end of four races, 110 all, but in the final two heals the Crimson's skill in high winds paid...
Thirsty Sudd. Below Lake Albert lies the Sudd, a vast swamp choked with papyrus and other tall grasses. The White Nile seeps slowly through this tangle, and loses nearly half its water in the process. Engineers plan to cut a canal 186 miles long, to bypass the water-stealing Sudd...
Harvard, vintage 1775, will interest viewers. While the gawkers will recognize Massachusetts or Hollis halls, they will be surprised to see apple orchards covering the regions of Sever and Lamont. Boylston st., which football crowds follow to the Stadium, is nothing but a stone causeway across a swamp. The land under Dunster House is a dock for boats, and a pond lies behind Billings & Stover's present location...