Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift for midnight cocoa parties in the dorm." But of all these items, and such others as a cerise-and-yellow Tattersall checked waistcoat, a set of Chinese checkers, dominees and dice encased in tooled leather, and a solid-gold hunting knife for skinning the game in field or forest, fifty Harvard undergraduates chosen at random offer a negative estimate. In fact, they say, "Phooey...
...Forest City, Iowa, Furniture Dealer John Hanson dramatized the U.S. farmer's prosperity in a new way. He scrubbed the dollar signs off his price tags, substituted a figure in hog-pounds. When one of his customers came in with a load of fourteen 220-lb. hogs, Dealer Hanson did a little quick figuring. At 1941 prices, he pointed out, the hogs would have bought one 9-cu. ft. refrigerator. Last week the customer got not only the refrigerator, but an electric range, an automatic toaster-and $20 in change...
Cliff Gates, a lean, six-foot Tennessean, became a Marine lieutenant in 1917. In France, he fought through Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, Soissons and the Argonne Forest. Once, pinned in a pocket with only two men left alive in his company, he held off the Germans until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
When the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., was gutted by forest fire three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 3), some 90,000 pedigreed breeding mice were caught in the flames. They represented 30 carefully bred strains, each with special qualities. Some were valuable because they were susceptible to polio, others were prone to nervous crises. Certain yellow mice (which grow fat with age) were used in the study of fatty (liposarcoma) cancers. Certain long-cherished strains were used in educational institutions all over the country to illustrate the Mendelian laws of inheritance...
Other student artists whose works are included in the showing are Paul G. Stone '49 and Carl M. Schmaiz '48. The latter's painting, "Forest Interior," is his fourth interpretation of that subject. One of his earlier ones was purchased by Wellesley College...