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Word: forest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston is another outstanding work by Sculptor French, his "Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor," a memorial for the tomb of Sculptor Martin Milmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Greatest | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned a new culture, based on the old ideas moulded afresh, by contact with forest...

Author: By G. D. Reilly ., | Title: THE GOLDEN DAY. By Lewis Mumford. Boni and Liveright. New York. 1927. $2.50. | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept in the open or in bamboo huts along the shores of the broad Brahmaputra dotted with tiny islands. The delegates have no official status, but theirs is a voice that speaks for India; vast, three times more populous than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahatma Hunter | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...second only to the scholarly wealth, is Editor of House and Garden, the sedentary sound of which title he dispels forever with a romantic introductory prose-poem: a series of fadeouts from the motor-clogged highways of today to the first faint trails through the trader's forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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