Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild and mysterious creatures perish when progress overtakes them. First the Indians went. Then the buffalos. Now the Brownies are almost gone. Who remembers them? They lived and flourished less than 20 years ago, their habitat neither forest nor prairies, but the pages of St. Nicholas Magazine and their own special books. They are almost gone because they are almost forgotten; children read about Abe Kabibble, Powerful Katinka and the Hall-Room boys. The other day Palmer Cox, artist and author, died at his home in Granby, Quebec. Everybody suddenly remembered the Brownies...
...President telegraphed to Friend W. Richardson, Governor of California: "Have noticed with deep concern the report of the growing destruction of forest fires in your State. I trust you will advise me if effective aid can properly be extended by the Federal Government...
...Association for the Advancement of Science, soon to meet in Toronto. Dr. Cuthbert Christy, naturalist, explorer, investigator of tropical diseases, has told of his long okapi hunt in a book which will be published in the U. S. -Big Game and Pygmies: Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi. Necessarily it was a long hunt; one must win the friendship of the Little People, the Pygmies, before one can start to track an okapi. The Pygmies- last remnants of the forest people which Stanley discovered - are suspicious, shoot poisoned arrows. Dr. Christy journeyed...
...Medicine when injected directly into the veins often works more swiftly and successfully than medicine given through the stomach." So said Dr. W. Forest Dutton, Medical Director of the hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania, in reporting (from Philadelphia) the satisfactory treatment of several cases by a new method. The approach to the enemy bacillus through the bloodstream is called intravenous therapy. Formerly, only five drugs could be so administered, but today the number has been extended to 140, and the treatment is applicable to almost as many diseases. Especially in cases of pneumonia and diphtheria, the rapid passage...
...France. The birchwoods surrounding La Boulie, echoed and resounded with a great crashing. Peering Out of the forest, woodsmen sought the cause of the disturbance, discovered a ponderous Englishman pounding his golf ball about the local links. When the forest was quiet once more, news went abroad that Cyril Tolley, long-smiting amateur ex-champion of Britain, was open champion of France. To two methodical 73's, Tolley on the second day added a 71 and a 73- a total of 290. Sleek "Walto" Hagen spurted through the rain into second place, lacing out a final...