Word: birches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lars V. Ahlfors (Mathematics), Paul D. Bartlett (Chemistry), Marland P. Billings '23 (Geology), Francis Birch '24 (Geology). Garrett Birkhoff '32 (Mathematics), Lemuel R. Cleveland (Biology), Carleton S. Coon '25 (Anthropology), Frederick B. Deknatel (Fine Arts), Rupert Emerson '21 (Government), Merle Fainsod (Government), Edwin Frickey (Economics), Mason Hammond '25 (Greek and Latin, History), Michael Karpovich (History), Donald C. McKay (History), Saunders MacLane (Mathematics), Arthur T. Merritt (Music), Jean-Joseph Seznee (Romance Languages and Literatures), Jabez C. Street (Physics), Kenneth V. Thimann (Biology), Bartlett J. Whiting '25 (English), John D. Wild (Philosophy), Donald C. Williams (Philosophy), and E. Bright Wilson, Jr. (Chemistry...
...thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
...Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky favorite, beat out a frenzied...
Clifford W. Birch...
...called a meeting in Hampton's grey agricultural hall. Farmers drove in from miles around. Villagers turned out by the score. Colonel Ryder told them: Hampton should erect a factory to turn out "rounds and squares" (chair rungs, desk legs) from nearby stands of spruce, cedar, pine and birch. The factory would serve as a memorial to 18 Hamptonians who had died in World War II. It would provide jobs for about 50 of Hampton's 187 overseas veterans...