Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well pleased. His site was a rocky knoll off upper Market Street, its only building a battered shed decorated with an old election poster. When Wright gets through with it the place will resemble a miniature World's Fair; a glamorous cousin of Southern California's lively Forest Lawn Memorial Park (TIME...
Then the guests filed out into the warm Southern California sunshine, still gripped by Forest Lawn's newest achievement-immortality. It took some time for the feeling to pass away...
...straightest faces in all the world would not assure respect for a hose and bucket solemnly set up as a protection against forest fires, even though these do constitute "a step in the right direction...
Androcles and the Lion (by Bernard Shaw; produced by the American Repertory Theatre) gets about the lightest treatment that Shaw ever gave to a serious subject. Thirty-three years ago he pilfered the fable of Androcles-who by being kind to a lion in the forest was spared when they met in the arena-to embroider it with comment on religion and early Christian martyrs. He wound up reducing the fable to a kind of farce...
...modem explorers who hope to make real contributions (or headlines) will have to do more than just go places. They will have to be willing and able to make scientific observations. "The forests of Brazil," says Explorer Andrews, "have been mapped from the air, but they are virtually unknown. Men will go there to seek medicinal plants, to study birds and animals and to learn about the forest peoples and their way of life...