Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foresters and the press began to denounce U. S. woodcutters, asserting that Americans have bought many French forests and are cutting them down. The U. S. lumberman is so described: "With an ear-to-ear grin on his face and his hands overflowing with dollars milked from the rate of exchange, he scours the forest of Creuse and Correze, demolishing the beautiful chestnut trees. The forests of several French provinces are soon to fall under...
...other Cooper, Engineer Dexter P., sits on a forest of blue prints, surrounded by draftsmen and tidewater inspectors, in an office on Campobello Island near the head of the Bay of Fundy. About the island and up into bottlenecked bays, the fabulous tides of Fundy swirl in and out unceasingly, marking a difference of 27 feet between flood...
...Forest Hills. For the second time within a fortnight, a large crowd rose to boo, hiss and deride a national champion. Thus Pugilist William Harrison Dempsey was treated in Los Angeles (TIME, Aug. 17). Thus, last week, a gallery received Miss Helen Wills when she stepped on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club to play with Miss Mary K. Browne against Miss McKane and Miss Colyer of England in a doubles match that would decide the international women's series for the Wightman Cup. The match score stood at 3-all. Mrs. Mallory, after half an hour...
...Forest Hills. Two tournaments were held on the suave turf of the West Side Tennis Club-the annual East vs. West meet, and the tryouts to determine how players shall be ranked and teamed on the Davis Cup combination...
...were given a new illumination by the following churchmen: The Rev. John A. Hutton, D. D., of the Westminster Chapel, London; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D.; the Rev. James Reid, M. A., of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Eastbourne, Eng.; Dr. William Louis Poteat, President of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C.; the Rev. W. Fearon Holiday of Selly Oak College, Birmingham, Eng., and Melvin E. Trotter, Superintendent of the City Mission, Grand Rapids, Mich...