Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curtis Woodruff Jr., sprinter. When he was graduated he went into the contracting business with his father in Forest Hills, Long Island. One warm evening last week he came home from work and began to play with his dog "Spot". The dog dodged behind a lilac bush, raced around the house; Sprinter Woodruff dashed after him. An hour later his father found his body crumpled on the floor of the garage, dead. The run had been too much for his heart...
...German and Italian, and was not hindered in developing his taste for literature. At 15 he substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe, Heine, Swinburne, Whitman were major prophets. He was shipped to Australia at 16?a shotgun cure for chronic appendicitis ?and while teaching school in the desolate bush was "converted," by reading the pragmatic philosophers, the evolutionists and a religiously-minded biologist (James Hinton), to a rational mysticism that found no God but much joy in the mechanistic universe. This joy was an artist's joy, "a many-sided and active delight in the wholeness of things...
...Yucatan, where hot, silent bush spreads like a sea over leagues of country through which not even the Indians always know their way, two big parties searched out "lost" cities of the Mayan civilization to fill the, gap from 600 to 1000 A.D. in known Maya history. Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann, famed Mayan authority, led his aides along a giant, 50-mile stone causeway from Chichen-Itza to the lost, lagoon-locked city of Coba, a march often made ceremonially by the Cobans into Chichen-Itza and finally as a migration by the Chichen-Itzans into Coba, probably...
...said a great many desperately important things, if they are true, which the Senator felt the Administration should either stand behind or keep secret. Cried Senator Harrison: "There is no one who does harm and injury that can be condemned more than the assassin who conceals himself behind some bush and fires unnoticed the shot into the back of the passing victim...
...Postoffice Building in St. Paul,**** one may go up a narrow hall and into a bare, brownish room. Piles of pamphlets lie on the floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles a little compass at its end. His collar stands out from his spare neck...