Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adequate but not unusual: Lige, aged 19 in 1822, is caught up in the frontier enthusiasm, joins three companions in St. Louis, goes up the Missouri to the Yellowstone and on up to the Marias for a winter's trapping. One of the men is killed in a brush with the Gros Ventre Indians, the other two in a battle with the Blackfeet, who were stirred into hostility by Hudson's Bay men in a trapping war and defeated only by the aid of the friendly Crees. "Dad," the last of the trio to die, confesses...
Last week came more news of kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Professor Valdemaras. Into the woods near Kroettingen he innocently disappeared with two friends. Ostensibly they had set out for a walk. When they came to a road, a car quietly pulled up alongside them. Professor Valdemaras & friends had started to get in when up sprang an alert guard, ordering them to halt. Vainly did the Professor argue that he was just going to take "a little ride in the country...
...same doctrine was applied in the similar Massachusetts case of Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. But there, injunction was denied, largely because the portion of the plaintiff's land in question was covered with dense brush and woods, and the occupants failed to prove material discomfort to themselves because of low flying...
...Governor and the Democratic Presidential nominee of 1920, had bought it as a rundown property from Henry Holiday Timken (roller bearings). Still financially run down was it last week when Publisher Cox, who makes money with his Miami News, Springfield News, Dayton News and Springfield Sun, sold it to Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc., the Ohio chain which publishes the Canton Repository (evening). Brush-Moore did to the News what chain-publishers usually do to unprofitable papers, no matter what their fame-killed...
...also announced that the company's first quarter net was $231,235 and that the year had begun with the company's books showing more than $40,000,000 in uncompleted work. Unusual seemed the western pilgrimage of such Manhattan Ulen-men as Matthew Chauncey Brush and Harry A. Arthur of American International Corp.; of Bayard F. Pope and George O. Muhlfeld of Stone & Webster; of Gordon H. Balch of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. The trip was also taken by Chicago Ulen-men Marshall Field and Edward P. Currier, of Field, Glore & Co. Whoever is a Ulen...