Word: log
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold camp of Fairbanks in the interior also enjoys a boomlet. Most of its streets are lanes of thick dust; a third of its homes are sagging log cabins; caribou wander disconsolately in its outskirts. But 7,500 people have jammed in where 3,500 lived before, and more are coming every...
...with the beginning of the log drive last week, began another season in the strange ministry of Bill Burger. Pastor since 1944 of the North Eastern Lumber Camp Parish under the Presbyterian Board of National Missions, Pastor Burger serves an estimated 30,000 lumberjacks and expects it will be another two years before he has visited all 250 camps in his territory. Burger is New England's first full-time lumberjack preacher...
...fail to use leg-drive, or put a foot through the bottom of the shell. He will tell a crew whimsically, "You had two speeds today--dead slow, and stop." And then go on, "You have to keep limber in the hips--it's like sitting on a rolling log...
...inevitable. So he gets out ahead of all possible rivals and corrals the votes of the 49th state. Kingsley Martin; what a Campaign Manager! Dick Grossman; what a Publicity Adviser! Soon we shall be seeing the campaign life of Uncle Henry on the bookstalls under the title: From Log Cabin to Bloomsbury...
...wives of the atomic scientists did not know what their husbands were doing, but they did know that there was no school in Los Alamos for their kids. So they hired themselves as teachers and started a one-room school in a log cabin left over from the old Ranch School. Because the name Los Alamos was taboo, they called it the "One-Armed School" (after the one-armed chairs in which the children...