Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horrors." Among Britain's most militant anti-Reds is able Sir Hilton Young. He wants Soviet lumber excluded from Great Britain under the Foreign Prison Made Goods Act of 1897. To prove that Soviet lumber is convict-hewn, Sir Hilton recently submitted to the Prime Minister sworn statements by three Russian refugees that they as "convicts" had been "forced" to cut wood in Russian forests, had witnessed "horrors" (TIME, Sept...
...giant sawmill pools. If the Soviet Government would permit, U. S. inspectors might be sent to watch each Russian log from tree to sawmill to ship. Otherwise the U. S. Congress must now decide whether to bar all Soviet lumber because some of it is convict-hewn, or to admit the inextricable mixture as Mr. MacDonald is doing...
...husband took their children to France during the War, did relief work till 1919. In 1921 Mrs. Fisher was appointed a member of Vermont's State Board of Education. She is one of the five judges of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Other books: The Brimming Cup, Rough-Hewn, Raw Material, The Home-Maker, Her Son's Wife...
...Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, laconic Calvin Coolidge's 500-word history of the U. S. to be carved on the face of Mt. Rushmore, S. Dak., will be legible from three miles away (TIME, Jan. 27). Last week the design committee announced the names and events which would be hewn and gilded in live granite...