Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the tall chimneys of Lancashire a score or more cotton mills had reopened. The radio industry bulged with orders. Shipyards boomed under six-year backlogs. Through the foggy mists of Liverpool rose a forest of cranes, "demobbing" big liners from war to peace...
Bits of Brilliance. Except for the practice, there was no good reason why the other 46 entrants in the men's singles bothered to compete at Forest Hills last week. None of them ever had a chance. But between lunges and tumbles, they squeezed in bits of brilliant tennis...
That set the stage for the preordained finale. But first Sarah Palfrey Cooke, back at Forest Hills after four years, recovered her abdicated singles throne. With green-ribboned pigtails flying, she beat Pauline Betz 3-6, 8-6, 6-4, and earned a husbandly kiss from Elwood...
...worked for an apothecary, tilled the soil, fought Indians. When he had learned all the tricks necessary for survival in a frontier land, he was given the traditional 30 arpents of land (one arpent: approximately one and a half acres), and was on his own. He cleared away the forest, built a house, then married a Netherlander named Marguerite Thomas...
...ambitious sculptural scheme of modern times was rising last week in Oslo's Frogner Park. It was the life work of Norway's leading sculptor (and eccentric), Gustav Vigeland, who died in 1943, aged 74. Not since Michelangelo, claimed one critic, had a sculptor chiseled such a forest of figures-over 100 separate versions of the human form, in granite and bronze, standing, reclining, cavorting, caressing, all over some 190 grassy acres. Vigeland simply ignored the Nazi invaders, and they let him go on with his sculpture. The work took 40 years to complete, cost Norwegian taxpayers...