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...poetry he says "I know how this stuff came into existence . . . and if I were obliged, not to define poetry, but to name the class of things to which it belongs, I should call it a secretion; whether a natural secretion, like turpentine in the fir, or a morbid secretion, like the pearl in the oyster. I think that my own case, though I may not deal with the material so cleverly as the oyster does, is the latter; because I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health, and the experience, though pleasurable, was generally agitating...
...economic and governmental changes; and the university's relations to new spiritual values. They will seek a definite program of education by which college graduates may exert constructive influence on society. The "great influx if students" in all colleges during the postwar decade, is Brown feels, the great opportunity fir university ideals and for the university mind, trained to a broad and intelligent outlook, to be an important social influence...
...faced with exhaustion of their southern pine reserves, Chairman Long had gathered his executives about him to ponder liquidation or continuance of the lumber business. Willingly risking his personal fortune, he joined in their vote to continue, promptly dispatched men into the Northwest to buy great tracts of Douglas fir. For the new venture they bought extensively, carefully. "A poor log costs as much to cut up as a good log, yes, and more," mused the little old lumberman...
...named Pelorus Jack. Waiting for the start, while the heavier jockeys stood beside their mounts to avoid tiring them, Pelorus Jack was well-behaved. He balked at one of the early jumps and unseated his rider. At the Canal Turn, a 6-ft. ditch and 5-ft. hedge of fir in front of a right-angle turn, Pelorus Jack was responsible for one of those moments of wild confusion which occur in every Grand National and make it the most dangerous, most uncertain horse race in the world...
...visualize Long-Bell one must think of the 14-story R. A. Long Building in Kansas City, must comprehend that on its 379,000 acres of land there were about 9,075,000,000 ft. of saleable timber, yellow pine in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, hard wood in Mississippi, Douglas Fir in Washington, white pine in California. The $108,000,000 assets further include thousands of acres of farm land, nine sawmills, 104 lumberyards, 292 miles of railroad, and the entire town of Longview, Wash. at the junction of the Columbia & Cowlitz rivers. With its bank, hotel, motion picture house, fire...