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Definition
a difficult situation that frustrates progress
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a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
or:
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- Martin had been reading Max Gottlieb's scientific papers—as much of them as he could read, with their morass of mathematical symbols—and from them he had a conviction that experiments should be something dealing with the foundations of life and death, with the nature of bacterial infection, with the chemistry of bodily reactions.Chapter 3 (5% in)
- It cannot be said, in this biography of a young man who was in no degree a hero, who regarded himself as a seeker after truth yet who stumbled and slid back all his life and bogged himself in every obvious morass, that Martin's intentions toward Madeline Fox were what is called "honorable.Chapter 5 (39% in)
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