Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nervous rattle and whine that cut through the smoky air was sad music to Oregon lumberjacks. It meant that the long, clear cry of "Timberrrr!" would soon ring out no more in the stillness of the forest-it would be drowned by the din of a mechanical buzz saw. The old hell-roaring, ripsnorting days of Jigger Jones (the Maine woodsman who could kick the knots off a spruce log with his bare feet), of loggers who slept with their axes and gouged out each other's eyes, would soon be gone forever. The Gargantuan legend of Paul Bunyan...
Three years ago, in Portland, squat, square-jawed Theodore Patrick Flynn, senior equipment engineer for the U.S. Forest Service, started working on a power-driven saw. Several logging-equipment companies in the Northwest began to manufacture the saws experimentally, but they caught on slowly with lumbermen...
When the tournament was getting under way Riggs had said: "The man who wins at Sea Bright will win at Forest Hills." After it he saw no reason to change his chipper mind...
During the Hour he may hear the gossip of fellow agrarians, enjoy snatches of semi-classical music and follow the adventures of "Uncle Sam's Forest Rangers" as they plow through a script prepared by the U.S. Forest Service. He chuckles at the antics of Aunt Fanny, postmistress of mythical Cheery Valley, smiles knowingly when Announcer Everett Mitchell gets off his famed daily greeting (often in the midst of a nor'easter): "It's a beautiful day in Chicago...
Though the green frog among his lily pads and the dappled deer in the sun-flecked forest are familiar to everyone, adaptive coloration has always confused biologists. Extremists like G. H. and Ab bott H. Thayer (whose Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom is often consulted by U.S. Army camouflage experts) have claimed that all animals are camouflaged, "the most gorgeous costumes being, in their own way, climaxes of obliterative coloring." Obliterative climax of the Thayers' theories-which made Theodore Roosevelt gnash his teeth and boom "Nature Fakers!"-was the idea that flamingos are concealingly colored because their foes...