Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope will some day be the biggest, finest, most humane zoo in the world. A 50-acre park opened in 1931. it is arranged for the comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor...
...rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth...
...where Elzire Dionne lay. "Ça me fait mal," she wept. Ovila Dionne surmised that his wife was complaining about the swelling of her legs. But the goodwives knew that Elzire Dionne was on the verge of bearing her seventh child, perhaps twins. They dispatched Ovila down the rocky, forest-edged road to Dr. Dafoe's, placed kettles and pots of water to boil, laid out clean towels and a bottle of olive oil on the new bedroom bureau, lined a wicker clothesbasket with pads and sheets to receive the newcomer, washed their hands, and composed themselves to watch...
...Treasury Woodin a Doctor of Music. Secretary of War Dern got an LL. D. from Pennsylvania Military College. Postmaster General Farley became, by grace of the University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington & Jefferson gave Secretary of the Interior Ickes an LL. D., as did Lake Forest. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace received an LL. D. from Drake. National University (Washington, D. C.) bestowed an LL. D. on Secretary of Commerce Roper and Bryant & Stratton (Baltimore, Md.) acclaimed him a Master of Business Administration. Secretary of Labor Perkins ended the list with LL. D.'s from Goucher...
...forest ranger in the middle of the main street of Tonto Basin, Ariz, frantically flagged an approaching automobile. To its passengers he explained that his 15-year-old half-breed wife was in her 24th hour of labor. Out from the car climbed Arizona's Physician-Governor Benjamin B. Moeur, followed the ranger to his house. Few minutes later the Physician-Governor delivered the mother of a 7-lb. baby...