Word: log
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July, the telephone company hopes to have a new central office in operation, to be designated either "University" or a second branch of the present "Eliot" exchange. At that time, the large back-log will be served as quickly as the speed of installation permits...
Insulated from the 20th Century by the desert and by neglect, they still live, for the most part, as they did in the 1860s. Their women wear flowing skirts copied from those worn by wives of frontier cavalry officers. Their shelter is still the "hogan," a windowless, one-room log structure with a hole in the dirt-covered roof to let out smoke. They still live far from streams because unfriendly spirits inhabit them; most must haul their water from one to 15 miles...
...log raft on which a group of scientists crossed the Pacific...
Last week the log of a clerical junket was completed...
...almost without guards. And there are 35 welcome visitors sent by the American Friends Service Committee from half a dozen countries to help in the building of the community. The visitors live in tents and work each day clearing the land, draining the swamps and fitting together the sturdy log houses that will soon make Varejoki a real town...