Word: swampland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monday the students--Thomas O. Nevison '51, Donald W. Ireland '52, and William V. H. Mason '51--altruistically built a thick gravel sidewalk over the swampland of upper Plympton Street, in front of the Harvard Auto Company...
...Swampland. Joel, a boy of 13, journeys east from New Orleans in the summer to find his father, whom he has never seen, at a lonely place called Skully's Landing. It is a journey into mysteries and wonders. From the town of Noon City he is taken in a slow wagon, by an ancient Negro named Jesus Fever, down a swampland road into night and sleep. He opens his eyes on a vivid morning scene...
Boscaini looked at the land which had been his-at the intricate system of reclamation ditches, running down to the Tiber River. He had dug them with his own hands through what had then been oozy swampland. In his mind, he saw the farm reverting to swamp while the new owners squabbled. He decided to stay on his farm on any terms. Said he to the new owners: "You have no ploughs, no cattle. I will work this land for you. You will give me a share in the crops." So, after a lifetime of hard work, Boscaini became...
...last 100 miles was a race against time: as they neared the Bering Sea the ice began to creep up on them from the Yukon's freezing banks. In late September they left the river, and Indians guided the frail canoe through the last miles of turgid swampland, to the town of Bethel...
...been pushed out of eyeshot, and Maypole went after him. Someone told him to follow a wire to the forward command post's generator. He hounded it through the stinking jungle, over dead trees, dead Japs, swampland, until alone Marine popped his head out from behind a log and hollered...