Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limbitations. In an Oregon forest, a legless woman went out hunting in a wheel chair, bagged a deer with one shot. In Cincinnati, a speaker at the convention of the Association of Limb Manufacturers of America backed off the platform and broke...
...dust aplenty. Dustiest squawk came from Missouri's Senators: rabid Isolationist Bennett Clark and obedient New Dealer Harry Truman. The Senators were aroused because Truman's cousin, 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman, credited with saving the 35th Division from a rout at the Argonne Forest in World War I, had been relieved of his field command by Lieut. General Ben Lear, assigned to head the reclassification board of the Second Army. General Truman, who had been doing a lot of housecleaning in his own division, resigned rather than take his housemaid's assignment...
...those Peoria Indians he used to see standing on the river front at Ste. Genevieve, wrapped in their blankets, waiting. "No one, not even the Indians themselves, knew what they were waiting for ... perhaps for this unreality of white men and white ways to pass, for felled forest to stand again, for the buffalo to return." One windy evening in 1851 (the year the Pacific Railroad was begun and the future river pilot, Mark Twain, was 16) Henry Shreve taciturnly died. In a few decades the citizens of Shreveport, La. no longer remembered for whom their town had been named...
...since. Same year, TIME-covered Cavalcade hurt his foot and never won another race. In 1936, TIME-covered Joe Di Maggio messed up the ball game for the American League All-Stars and the Nationals won. Same year, TIME-covered Helen Hull Jacobs lost the tennis singles at Forest Hills. In 1937, TIME-Covered Pitcher Bobby Feller hurt his arm, and was mostly idle until July. Same year, TIME-covered Baron von Cramm lost to Donald Budge at Forest Hills. Same year, TIME-covered Wallace Wade's football team-Duke-lost the Southern championship to North Carolina...
...Academy, Culver, Ind.; John B. Rankin, Newark, Del., Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J.; Leslie G. Ritner, Waterloo, Iowa, The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.; Charles G. Sellers Jr., Charlotte, N. C., Central High School, Charlotte; Douglas R. Spencer, Eugene, Ore., University High School, Eugene; Hugo G. W. Stockbridge, Forest, Va., Virginia Episcopal School, Lyncliburg; Bernardo H. Tovar, Chicago, III., Portsmouth Priory School, Portsmouth, R. I.; and Charles C. Works Jr., Denver, Colo., Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colo...