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...provoked an epic battle which cut through religious, political and even family lines. So did the argument as to whether the turn of the century came on Jan. 1, 1900 or Jan. 1, 1901. Another question that provoked a fist fight: Can salmon best be grilled over birch or willow coals...
...change at the frontier was electric. Just at the border was a big Finnish lumberyard which would have done credit to Seattle. A birch-burning engine shunted briskly up & down the sidings. A row of roughly shaped granite rocks-crude anti-tank barriers left over from the war-dotted a hill; behind a brown horse, a sturdy, towheaded Finn who had already plowed several acres on either side was now plowing between the boulders. His neat house with its red tile roof and his brand-new red barn stood proudly at the top of the hill...
...minerals it carried remain in the plant's tissues, eventually falling to the ground and becoming part of the humus on the surface. Geophysicists analyze this "biologically enriched" layer and the leaves of growing plants. Finnish geochemists found a rich copper-nickel deposit by examining the ashes of birch leaves...
...unpainted, unpaved frontier look. The trim wooden fences could have done with Tom Sawyer's or any other system of whitewashing. A lad of about Tom's age came past, dragging his feet on his way to school the way Tom did. He had a 2-ft. birch whittling stick, from which his shiny-bladed penknife was 'making shavings fly first at one end and then at the other; he was a real Stakhanovite among whittlers. Tom would have liked to know...
...story: a well-loved clergyman (Wyrley Birch) is shot through the head on a village street. There are no known motives, no clues, and it looks like an impossible case to crack. But someone must be tried and convicted, quick. Elections are near, and through their newspapers the political outs belabor the reform administration. Among innumerable stumblebums, the police dragnet at length yields a young veteran (Arthur Kennedy). There is a horrifying amount of evidence against him; worn down by third-degree treatment, he signs a confession. It is a perfect case, and State's Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana...