Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Hills lies Custer Park, South Dakota's 125,000-acre forest reserve. Famed for its elk, buffalo, trout, natural caves, bottomless lake, needle-like rock-for-mation, Custer Park offered high altitudes and cool breezes to the presidential tourist...
...life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human soul into refreshment. But it is too long between bites; we must have...
Within a few months, Mr. & Mrs. Johnson expect to set out for the Congo to film gorillas, okapi (large shy forest-dwelling herbivore, with bizarre stripes, as yet unphotographed...
...Bandits. "Robbed and maltreated by bandits. Have Nambikuara and Pareccis collections," said a cablegram dated May 5 at Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Francis Gow-Smith, explorer and ethnologist for the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). The Museum was relieved, having feared him lost in Matto Grosso (thick forest) Province, Brazil. He had previously been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more than...
...close an interest in legal lumber may blind the judiciary to the merits of the individual trees of the forest. The English Cabinet System, disclaiming the principle of checks and balances upon which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense is appealing to the Governor, nevertheless guards against too close a perspective by mingling expert under-secretaries with non-expert politician in administering its public business...