Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because it is easier to fire a field of winter grass in the spring than it is to plow the stubble under, and because "burning off" brings sweet young grass for cows to eat, many a U. S. husbandman is responsible for brush blazes that sometimes sweep into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National...
...current Hollywood standards, the more or less chronic inebriation of Toby McLean is truly restrained; by the standards of actuality, contrary to all accepted belief, it is somewhat less so. But so far as actuality goes, Foster on the screen has an inestimable advantage over the character in Katharine Brush's best seller: he is flesh & blood; and so, with more decorative effect, is Claudette Colbert as the heroine. Their easy, natural playing brings the brittle characters to life, gets the most out of the glib, skillful, and rather shallow little story about a newsman who quarrelled with...
...Karl Koski, 30, Finnish carpenter, with a handkerchief over his bald head, clutching his sweater cuffs to keep his hands warm, passing through a brush fire and a field composed largely of Irishmen and other Finns; a national championship marathon (26 mi., 385 yds.), run around Silver Lake on Staten Island...
Last week-twelve months later, almost to a day-the Yale Record published its "House-Planners' Number." Less bitter, less funny than Harvard's lampoonings, Record artists and scriveners had taken up stumbling brush and unsure pen to abuse Edward Harkness again. He had given Yale more than $10,000,000 for a House Plan similar to that of Harvard (TIME, Jan. 20). Still unaware of the Plan's detail, Yalemen only knew that last autumn's excavations on New Haven's Elm Street were for a group of buildings vaguely designated as "Unit...
...just as alert as his self-portrait (see above). Born 50 years ago in Manhattan, he was named, by parents who loved literature, after the great Dr. Johnson. He went to the College of the City of New York (1899) and, like most Manhattanites who relish pencil and brush, studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students' League. In 1904 he married; he has two daughters. For a long time he did oil portraits, exhibiting widely, winning academic honors. But, says he, "I had to commercialize my art by pleasing aunts and uncles, grandmothers and old-maid relatives...