Word: birched
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...said) you have to cut a hole for your cuttings before you can do any cutting! In this small stuff you may take an hour to clear a hundred feet. You may run into a section that has been logged, where you have a small new growth of cherry birch, and maple from half an inch to four inches in diameter; or instead, a tangle of bushes, raspberry, blackberry, alder, where only a scythe will make any progress. Anywhere in the forest you may find bobble--bush and striped maple growing into the trail from several feet on the side...
Though only a shy, mouselike toe peeps now and again from beneath Lanice's decorously billowing hoopskirts, within, untrammeled by its stays, waits a supple birch-sliver body. Lanice's mother, a vivid little chestnut-blonde, ran from her professor-husband with a precocious invalid student, to Italy...
Albert Francis Birch '24 is one of the eleven recipients of the recently awarded American Field Service Fellowships for French Universities. Mr. Birch was awarded the fellowship in the field of Physics. While in college, he was an editorial chairman of the CRIMSON...
Even lumber can be made out of corn cobs, where high tensile strength is not required. The weight of this synthetic lumber is about that of the lighter woods, and it can be worked by regular woodworking tools. It has been found a successful substitute for even birch wood in making spools, as well as in making picture frames, moldings and wall boards...
From Mongolia, assistants of Colonel Kozloff, Russian explorer, telegraphed their chief that tumuli (mounds) he had been investigating in the birch and pine forests of the Kentei Mountains, near Urga, had yielded wooden engravings and water color pictures. Explorer Kozloff had already found there figured carpets, silken fabrics, 700 books written in seven languages including Hindu and Chinese, bloodstained women's pigtails that suggested scalping. Earthenware established 200 B. C. as the probable date of the civilization to which tombs made of squared and planed logs, found at depths of 24 to 42 ft. underground, belonged...