Word: birchbark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these, Jasper Danckeart by name, set out from Staten Island on a bright morning in 1679. He traveled by birchbark canoc to the hamlet of Elizabethtown, where he disembarked and set out across country towards the warmer climes of the southwest. But let him tell his tale...
...search for samples. They proceeded to a methodical separation of the nightclub, snatched violins from the orchestra, went backstage and to the kitchen for mixing bowls and stepladders. Gradually they covered the dance floor with assorted woodwork (pushcarts, wooden Indians, rickshaws), reaching a climax by carrying in a birchbark canoe or an outhouse...
...months later wearing a bearskin, a beard, a splendid sun tan, to win national acclaim and a 20-week vaudeville contract. Later it turned out he had spent most of the time hiding in a cabin with a Boston ex-publicity man, who had written Knowles's "birchbark diary," sent it back to the Boston Post, which printed it regularly, thus increased its circulation more than...
...Mary Welsh will visit her folks in Thief River Falls, Minnesota-and steal a short vacation with a Chippewa Chief named Kau-kau-kan who taught her to paddle a birchbark canoe when she was twelve. Before she goes back to London she will do a short stint in TIME'S editorial office here, to share her intimate, on-the-spot knowledge of Britain directly with our editors...
...wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take root and grow for the next moon...