Word: floundering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...walk opposite Holyoke St. is still worse; the stones are sunken and uneven. and on the rainy days that are so common in Cambridge, one is obliged either to keep on the flagging, and go ankle deep in water, or step off the path and flounder ankle deep in mud. Now the expenditure of ten dollars would right this state of things: a small tile pipe would remedy the first defect, and a few hours labor straightening the stones would remedy the second. Let us hope that the authorities who are so eager that we shall tread in straight paths...