Word: log
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Company plans to open a new exchange on Saturday, October 16. Constructed in a wing of the present office, these switchboards will cover the back-log of 2000 applications that has been piling up for the past year...
Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop last week archly recalled Aesop's fable of the frogs that were "so annoyed with the stolid tyranny" of their inanimate monarch, King Log,* that they asked Jupiter to remove him. Jupiter sent them King Stork, who thereupon gobbled up the frogs...
...According to Aesop, not Alsop, the frogs became contemptuous of the sluggishness of King Log...
...ideas of what a painting by the country's best-known "primitive" should look like. When Grandma paints a picture that seems not quite in character, her dealers sadly send it back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers] wants me to change it. He don't like pink. He just...
...fallen so low that the mere dodging of death is all that he lives for. Peaceful Jones (Charles Kemper) is a refreshing anomaly from the tired list of western old-timers and dry-tongued farmers. After each Saturday-night drunk, he is chained to a tremendous log (Furnace Creek has not yet got around to building a jail) which he cheerfully heaves up and carries along with him, back...