Word: swum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the time he began his first important publishing venture, The Tribune & Farmer, in Philadelphia in 1879 (this followed a series of smaller-scale efforts, jobs as advertising solicitor, circulation hustler, etc. etc.) to the day when he could address an audience of 8,000,000, Publisher Curtis never swum: a crusader's sword. Like himself his publications were simple, eminently respectable, ultra conservative, 100% American. It was Publisher Curtis' idea that the Satevepost, which he bought in 1897 for $1,000 when it had a circulation of 2,000, should preach the romance of honest toil...
...prime was dearer or more venerated. For the last thirty-eight years it rested easily on wires. Corinthian columns were near it. Above it were illustrious names, such as Parkman, Motley. Beneath it, of late, has been Speaker Saltonstall. So fortunate a fish wouldn't have swum away of itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were at once suspected. There is talk of a youth carrying a long box with Easter lilies sticking out from one end; of other youths smelling of liquor. But codfish begets thirst. Were...
Last week something happened. Every seventh person in Chamberlain became feverishly ill with typhoid. Six died. It was noised that an Indian boy who might have been a carrier of typhoid had swum in the freezing Missouri, contaminating the water. But the fact, and full explanation was, that the chlorinator which makes Missouri River potable for Chamberlain people broke down...
...woman who had once hardened his heart by betraying him, came searching for the secret of her mother. The Governor countermanded the order for Jeronimo's arrest, but it was Virginia who came to rescue him. Too late: he had been thrown into the crocodile-infested river, had swum miraculously across, vanished into the jungle where no man had been...
Happy as a waterbug which has just swum around a bowl of soup, Dr. Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion City, Ill., last week landed in Manhattan after a cruise around the world. To him, of course, it had been a cruise around the edge of the world, the circumnavigation of a soup-plate whose centre is the North Pole...