Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...
Although the ex-swamp on Western Avenue is able to accommodate almost 400 cars, a check last night revealed not more than 100 automobiles were parked there. The number of parking lot registrants listed with Chief Randall's office is somewhat smaller than the total car registration, since many students use lots in Cambridge...
...Corporation is going to try another trans-river lot, this time on the marshy field behind the Business School . . . If the University wants to solve the parking problem, it should turn from this distant swamp across the river, from a lot which nobody will want...
This fall the University has officially adopted the Cambridge ban. Students must register their cars, they must keep them off the streets--either in high-priced garages or the ex-swamp. The University did not question the Cambridge law, nor did it worry much about the convenience of its lot, No parking still makes no sense...
...poet trying to tell you something? Or is he just muttering to himself? On the muddy banks between the clear running stream of communication and the swamp of self-expression squats a swarm of modern poets, patting mud-pies into shape for the admiration of themselves and their playmates. The much larger crowd of regular guys in the swimming hole jeer at these patty-cakers as sissies, but stand a little in awe of them too, seeing how cleverly they mold their incomprehensible mud images...