Word: chopping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the onetime Kaiser fells a modest cord or two each year in Doorn, Mr. Bigelow is indefatigable as a log and kindling splitter at his 120-year-old rustic abode, "Bigelow Homestead," in Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y. (TIME, Feb. 22). Time was when his father, John Bigelow, was U. S. Ambassador at Paris; and young Poultney is said to have paddled the first U. S. canoe that ever skimmed through...
Died. Ching Sam, millionaire chop suey restaurateur; in Waterbury, Conn...
...tall timber, where little light comes through, you may run a trail almost anywhere; there is often little to do but blaze the route. But even here there will be an occasional tree that has fallen of old age, and it will be a big one. you must chop or saw through it, perhaps twice, very likely an hour's real work. Out of this forest you may pass into a section where a storm has wreaked navoc. All the big trees are down, and a new forest, head high, is growing up so thick that (as has been said...
...have become increasingly apparent. Overcrowding and hurrying are as unpleasant as gloom. Convenient, it must be admitted, the cafeterias remain. Their apparent variety of food, ingeniously set forth on placards, is less appealing and more monotonous after more familiar acquaintance, and in many cafeterias resolves itself into the pork-chop-and-French-friend-potatoes type of malnutrition. Irregular hours have proved injurious to health. And prices have gone up:one cafeteria, for instance, has increased the price of eggs by furnishing guaranteed "new-laid" eggs only on payment of 35 cents, instead of the quarter previously charged for any eggs...
...from caviar to coke foregathered at Leipzig during the week for that city's 700th annual fair. From the U. S. alone came 1,500 buyers. At Leipzig they mingled with oleaginous Armenian lace vendors, stalwart Norwegian goat cheese merchants, shrewd Jugoslavian toy whittlers. When the week of chop, swop and barter closed, over 50% more business had been done than in the previous record year...