Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...section that has been logged, where you have a small new growth of cherry birch, and maple from half an inch to four inches in diameter; or instead, a tangle of bushes, raspberry, blackberry, alder, where only a scythe will make any progress. Anywhere in the forest you may find bobble--bush and striped maple growing into the trail from several feet on the side, so that it makes no impression to cut merely what is rooted in the path. Everywhere from all trees you find branches protruding laterally into the path. Always there is "small stuff" which has fallen...
...Heifer Jessie's first stomach that the Pennsylvania State scientists believe they will find Vitamin B manufactured. Each day they will scoop a trifle of predigested vitamin-less hay through the cow's little window and feed it to dieted rats. If the rats do not get neuritis, Jessie does make Vitamin B. If they do get neuritis, then the experiment will have been usefully foolish. It will have closed one more needless door of scientific research...
...Dodd does not come up to London's frenzied descriptions of Noel Coward in that part, but Edna Best's Tessa in London could not have far surpassed the performance of Beatrix Thomson, quaint, perhaps too pretty, but subtly pigeontoed. It is said that all Broadway was combed to find an ingenue who knew what a constant nymph was, without success. Miss Thomson, daughter of a British army colonel, is the wife of Actor Claude Rains, who plays Roberto the hired...
...over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot them down. With one accord, all the men rebel, fling the officers overboard, commandeer the ship, receive food and sympathy from the harbor town of Odessa, steam past the rest of the fleet (whose crews refuse to fire on their comrades), find temporary refuge in Rumania...
...rink will be reserved especially for men who are not affiliated with any of the league teams, so that these men can play informally. Those who have only a few minutes to spare, will find this rink to be very convenient to them...