Word: swampland
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...rain lashes in from the Bering Sea. It rains so hard in Yakutat that fresh concrete is ruined before it has a chance to set. Farther south, parts of Annette Island are a subarctic swampland, where plank roads have to be shored up on pilings driven into the muck...
Prelude to Decision. No word of world crisis yet came from the President. Resting during a long weekend at Hyde Park, the President spent his time planning to convert some swampland to truck farming. He entertained Crown Princess Martha of Norway, postponed his return to Washington when the weather cleared. With an almost ostentatious disregard of the news he spent the Sunday morning with members of the Chapel Corners Grange, although the mission from Moscow had been on hand a full day. Averell Harriman, keeping to the tempo of the time, flew from Moscow to London, broadcast a breathless speech...
This is a lame excuse. Because the University has spread beyond the original acre and a quarter of cowyard procured by Governor Winthrop in 1637 for "a schoale or colledge" is no reason for adopting a name totally alien to our way of life. The ex-swampland which is Eliot House and the far-off wilderness which is Dunster are no more descended from the Romans' Campus Martius than are the peaceful preserves of Hollis and Stoughton. Both sides of Mass. Ave. are equally consecrated to intellectual grazing, luminating, and chewing...
...last week many sections had been built: some 8,000 miles of it were all-weather roads; 2,150 were usable in dry weather; 1,200 were still bullock-cart trails. Only one section was hopelessly blank: between Panama City and Colombia stretched 186 miles of impassable jungle and swampland, with head-hunting Indians lurking behind each tree. Belief was that the highway would have to break off at Panama; that cars would have to be ferried over 1,000 miles around the coast to La Guaira, Venezuela...
...jobs were provided for many an unemployed soldier back from the Civil War digging 30 miles of trenches to drain a 345-acre tract of Chicago swampland, on which rose the Union Stock Yards. Last week the yards - now biggest in the world, centre of Chicago's only billion-dollar -a-year industry - observed their 78th anniversary. Over their scales 896 million ani mals have been sold...