Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny nation that Russia and Red China are using to work off their ideological aggressions is tucked away in a remote corner of the Balkans. Its estimated 1,700,000 citizens have the hard choice of living in the malarial swamp-lands of the Adriatic coast or in mountain valleys cut off from everything except the sky by the 6,000-ft. peaks of the Dinaric Alps...
...room for the use of its its own new Institute. Indeed, Radcliffe is about ready to drop its simulation of a University and concentrate entirely on creating a tightly knit College which will have enough individuality to offer a distinctive education in a Harvard whose growing intensity threatened to swamp the 'Cliffe only a few years...
...partisan crowd, including most the Williams varsity, watched a stuborn Amherst team and a courageous goalie battle Harvard for two periods of fun, exciting soccer. With the Crimson lead 2 to 1 at the half, a drenching rain began and continued throughout the game, turning the field into a swamp and play into a joke...
...executive vice president of Consolidated Steel Corp. Eight years later he left to form the engineering firm of Bechtel-McCone-Parsons, took on the added job of running the California Shipbuilding Corp. after the U.S. entered World War II. Starting from absolute scratch-its main yard was a swamp, and less than 1% of its 40,000 workers had shipbuilding experience-Calship turned out 467 cargo carriers and tankers in four years. At Calship, McCone worked 15 hours a day, organized the yard on an assembly-line prefabrication basis, stepped up production to record levels by improving welding techniques. After...
...aging process can be checked, but at high cost. Near Detroit, senile Long Lake, which has silted in spots to within 2 ft. of the surface, is being dredged to 14 ft.-at a cost of $100,000 for a lake only 146 acres in size. Outside Indianapolis, Bacon Swamp, which once was a lake, is getting similar dredging treatment. Algaecides are also helpful, says Frey, and so is bubbling-in oxygen during a lake's stagnant summer months. But such processes are expensive, and practical only on small lakes...