Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michigan. Alfred Owen Crozier of the National Republican Club contributed his summer home, "Wildwood on the Old Indian Trail," near Harbor Springs. Inducements: 300 acres; a new log cabin of Norway pine. Mr. Crozier said the President had termed his offer "most alluring" but that no definite decision had been made...
...twilights are long here, and after the tents were pitched on the bluff and supper eaten in the cabin, there was light enough to hook--and lose--the first salmon. As it slowly darkened, the nighthawks began to circle above the stream, the deer stole out to drink, and ripples along the faster water began to weave their fantastic patterns of black velvet shot with silver. A whippoorwill, the first I remember hearing as far north as this, is calling from the birches behind the tents. The thermometer registers 43, and we crawl into our sleeping bags and listen...
Last week Lieutenant Araki reached Shanghai and reported to his Rear Admiral. Then he went to his cabin on the Japanese flagship, took pen and paper, wrote: "In order to insure the safety of Japanese residents at Nanking, I endured, from the Chinese, insults which no Japanese can tolerate. The lives of the Japanese refugees could be saved, but I am ashamed that the honor of the Japanese navy has been disgraced in my person...
Craft. The aerial sleeper is now a commonplace to government couriers between Germany and Russia. Eight leather easy chairs in the passenger cabin convert into four bunks, with curtains. There are slight, agile cabin attendants; refreshment machines...
...experimenter of Missoula, Mont. In the Nation, he wrote: observed a peculiar biological-political relationship in the annual rings of the trees. Three marked periods of retarded growth were manifest, just prior to 1828, 1884 and 1912. These were the years of major catastrophes for Republicans. In 1828, log-cabin-and-hard-cider Andrew Jackson smote them down; in 1884, rotund-reformer Grover Cleveland, in 1912, scholar Woodrow Wilson. ... It struck me that possibly the same lack of rainfall which caused the trees to wane also caused the party in power to wane. Several economists have recognized the correlation between...