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Skip Stahley's tall Yardlings chalked up their most sensational victory of the year Saturday night in the Indoor Athletic Building when they scored 25 field goals and 10 foul shots of swamp Exeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Hoopmen Override Exeter For Easy 60-25 Win | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

They were able to pick their morning grapefruit from the trees outside their camp in a Seminole swamp on the St. John's river. The St. John's flows north for fully half the length of Florida, within 20 miles of the Atlantic coast, before it empties into that ocean at Jacksonville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCAVATORS' CLUB BACK FROM TRIP | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

...were forced to set up their camp during a terrific rainstorm, although it was supposed to be in the middle of Florida's dry season. Furthermore, civilization was comparatively far away, and they had to carry drinking water, food, and other supplies across a mile and a quarter of swamp land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCAVATORS' CLUB BACK FROM TRIP | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

Scalp 'em, swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Washington Massacre | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...funny people, you Shelleyites," Explorer Henry M. Stanley warned an officer of the Shelley Society. "You are playing-at a safe distance yourself, maybe, with fire. In spreading Shelley you are indirectly helping to stir up the great socialist question . . . the one question which bids fair to swamp you all. . . ." Thomas Carlyle rudely cut short one Shelleyite rhapsody. "Yon man Shelley," he growled, "was just a scoundrel, and ought to have been hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Revolution | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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