Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study of the subject I have observed how such utilization of a natural resource which otherwise would run into waste in the sea and not remain and increase as the forest would, both gives impetus to industrial life and provides a safe and enduring investment for capital...
...Story. Between forest and sea, high over Las Palomas harbor, was the mansion known as Los Xicales, where the descendant of one who came with Cortez had lived to his end in faith, poverty and style. Sard Harker, sailor, lay on the barque Venturer in Las Palomas harbor, dreaming of a girl he loved. In his dream, the vision of that proud and now empty house stood up clear and portentious, while a voice rang in his ears : "You will meet her again in that house for the second of three times. It will be very, very important...
...suburbs : Riverside, whilom seat of Society; Hinsdale and Wheaton, gentleman-farmer communities; Oak Park, Rogers Park and Wilmette, ''middle class" communities, civic-spirited; Evanston, puritanical and efficient; Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe, more countrified and country-clubby; Highland Park, a cross between these and the larger pretensions of Evanston; Lake Forest, "the Newport of the Middle West...
While the wedding-guests danced and laughed, and the vodka flowed like water, Boryna's farm was the scene of piteous, hidden tragedy. Honest Kuba, servant of Boryna, had been induced by the Jew Yanka, his creditor, to poach on the Manor. The forest-keeper had shot him in the leg, and he had not dared tell until the night of the wedding when his agony became unbearable. Drunken Ambrose, examining the wound, told him that amputation at the hospital was his only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting...
Present members of the Academy: John S. Sargent, Daniel C. French, James F. Rhodes, William M. Sloane, Robert U. Johnson, George W. Cable, Henry van Dyke, William C. Brownell, Arthur T. Hadley, Edwin H. Blashfield, Thomas Hastings, Brander Matthews, George E. Woodberry, George W. Chadwick, Lockwood De Forest, William R. Mead, Bliss Perry, A. Lawrence Lowell, Nicholas M. Butler, Paul W. Bartlett, Owen Wister, Herbert Adams, Augustus Thomas, Timothy Cole, Cass Gilbert, Robert Grant, Frederick MacMonnies, William GilIett, Paul E. More, Gari Melchers, Elihu Vedder, Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul Shorey, Charles A. Platt, Archer M. Huntington, Childe Hassam, David...