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...went into a loop-the-loop with the idea of frightening him into speech and hearing. But the plane never came out of that loop; Luke Briotta is still deaf and dumb-and dead. There had been a sickening dive, an explosion and flames, an ugly hole in a swamp near Agawam, Mass. Pilot Potholm and another passenger also died...
...Federal Government) "There are too many floating islands in this dismal swamp. They are anchored to the President technically, but are responsible to nobody...
...Gobi Desert of Mongolia for traces of man's origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity of the devil to survive." Obviously the statement is a rhetorical exaggeration by Dr. Cameron. The Gobi was once a lake, once a swamp. Dr. Cameron's idea is that man as a distinct anthropoid began in the withering Kalahari Desert of British Bechuanaland...
Firemen tried a hose, could not swamp student ardor. Reluctantly, at last, the police opened fire upon the mob, killing, wounding, restoring order...
After lagging behind the Wesleyan five for the greater part of the first half, the University basketball team forged ahead to swamp the Middletown team 41 to 24, in a swift and hard fought game on the Hemenway court last night. A few minutes before the close of the first period a sudden spurt brought the University quintet into the lead, the half ending...