Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of Canada's Indians, the bush tribes in the north, are nomadic and primitive, their children (10,000 of them) unschooled. The remaining two-thirds live on reservations, are divided roughly into the poor and backward in the northern half of the provinces and the progressive bands who live farther south. Changing the way of life of the Indians on the 2,250 reservations scattered across Canada will be at best a slow job. Even the rich Indian likes the security of the reservation, often returns to it in old age, wants to be buried in its cemetery...
...Canada's immigration projects (factory girls, bush workers, miners, farmers, etc.) the D.P. domestics plan has been the most successful. At week's end, three ships loaded with D.P.s docked in Halifax. On board were 350 future domestics. Canadian agents in Europe have raised their sights to 8,500 to fill the stacks of applications in the Labor Department's offices...
...story, such as it is, evolves among five characters: a sort of bush-league saint (James Cagney) who tries to make people happy; a dim Man Friday (Wayne Morris); a B-girl* (Jeanne Cagney) who claims to have been prominent in burlesque; a fine old pathological liar (James Barton) in fringed buckskins; an itinerant sadist (Tom Powers) who has to supply, singlehanded, Saroyan's conception of the power and proportion of evil in this world...
HARVARDYALE Huntington, 2b Moher, ss Caulfield, rf James, lf Crosby, c Redden, cf Coulson, lb Matthews, 3b Lunder or Howe, lf Goodyear, rf Coppinger, 3b Felske, c Gannon, cf Smith, 2b Dunn, ss Bush, lb Godin, p Quinn...
Yale's captain George Bush is weakly regarded at the plate, but his glove work around first base has been extraordinary. One New Haven publication recently called him one of the finest fielding first sackers in the country, "including the major leagues...