Word: mudding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past five years. Since 1966, the Indians have won only three League games, one by forfeit, and Harvard has had the honor of being the victim each time. Two years ago the Crimson traveled to Hanover hoping for a share of the League title and returned with mud on its face...
...different types of horses to choose from. There is a horse that has never won a race, and there is a horse from Venezuela, and there are horses from famous Calumet Farms, and speed horses, and come-from-behind horses, and horses that run well in the mud. After all when twenty horses are entered in the same race there is likely to be a little variety...
...sheared away and the red-and bluecoats are recalled with harrowing accuracy. The serried ranks of French overflow the British positions. The infantry companies form huge squares, firing at an enemy that seems, like dragon's teeth, to sow new fighters as the old ones tumble. And mud undoes both sides. Aerial cameras traverse the horizon, catching cannon and cavalry as they give the battle almost Tolstoyan sweep and power...
...Engineer Mehmet A. Sherif think that some of the more conveniently located trenches could be used as efficient geophysical garbage dumps. The trick, they explain in Nature, would be to dump packaged waste into the sea off the mouths of fast-flowing rivers, which annually wash vast amounts of mud into continental trench areas. Though the garbage would not be drawn far into the earth for many years, it would soon be buried so deep in mud that there should be little danger of pollution during the interim...
Dense Packages. Bostrom and Sherif admit that their scheme raises a number of serious technological questions. It would have to be determined, for example, whether a river deposits mud quickly enough to accommodate the projected garbage load. The plan would also be expensive, because the garbage would have to be compressed into dense, sinkable packages and transported by barge to the disposal site. Nevertheless, the two scientists, who are co-directors of the University of Washington's earthquake engineering group, are convinced that their proposal deserves serious scientific consideration. "In an age in which waste material is mass-produced...