Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enable the University to expand the scientific research work in forestry problems now being carried on at the University Forest at Petersham, Mass., an anonymous donor has made an offer, which has been accepted, of $100,000 for an endowment fund for the Forest...
...income of the fund offered to Harvard, it is stipulated, is to be used for research and experimental work in forest production, "to determine the basic facts essential to the successful practice of silviculture in the northeastern section of the United States, especially in New England...
...Plans for the coming season are already fixed, and include the works of such composers as Herbert, De Koven, Ludar, Lehar, Johann and Oscar Strauss. Only two of the operas, The Chocolate Soldier and Sweethearts have been seen on that stage before. The Municipal Opera stage, located in beautiful Forest Park, is unique in this country. It has a natural background of splendid trees, a bridge spanning a stream, and an amphitheatre capable of sheltering 10,000 in case of a storm. Many music lovers observe with regret that no Gilbert and Sullivan operas come in this year...
...home of Jean François Millet at Barbizon, France, where he "lived the simple life" in a chestnut forest with the rest of the famous Barbizon Group (Corot, Rousseau, Diaz, Harpignies) 50 years ago, has been restored by two of his pupils at their own expense, and will be opened to the public as a memorial. The simple life was no affectation for the peasant Millet. Often he and his wife did not eat, but gave the little food that they had to their children. Today, if Millet were alive, he could easily maintain a yacht from royalties...
Radio broadcasting from the Brazilian Centennial Exposition at Rio de Janeiro was heard at Honolulu, 8,000 miles away, establishing a new distance record. The phonofilm," an apparatus which produces sound and pictures simultaneously, invented by Dr. Lee de Forest, was successfully demonstrated before the New York Electrical Society...