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...moment or two, they popped up in an opposite, unexpected quarter. The loon is a deadpan wit. We repeated the game three times. At last, they tired of me, and vanished. As I paddled across flat water to the dock, I heard a single loon call in the swampish bay beyond the lodge - the loneliest sound on earth, a premonition of winter, of what's to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magnificent, Maddening Muskie | 8/23/2000 | See Source »

Besides having to contend with the tough competition that regional meets always bring, Harvard also had to face the harsh Pennsylvania weather--35-degree temperatures, snow mixed with sleet--as well as the icy and swampish condition of the course...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Women Run 5th as Stricker Takes IC4As | 11/18/1985 | See Source »

...description of Puerto Rico as a "jungled, swampish, feverish, rum-ridden, slum-ridden 'paradise,' " issue of June 15, has shaken my faith in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...island is not "swampish"; it is dry, in fact, too dry for its own good. For years both the Insular and Federal Governments have been carrying out a campaign against malaria by draining and filling in the few swamps, and except in a few places malaria has been greatly controlled. Yellow fever has never been prevalent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...needed a man to be circuit attorney. Last fall Tom Hennings eased into the Navy, went on active duty as a lieutenant commander. He was assigned to Puerto Rico as naval aide to crisp-curled Rexford Guy Tugwell, the original brain-truster, who is now Governor of that jungled, swampish, feverish, rum-ridden, slum-ridden island "paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumbles in Puerto Rico | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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