Word: logged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Log Attacks Halti Beetles...
...demolishes a barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place to a running accompaniment of strong talk and more or less continuous gunfire...
When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials...
...Johns Bulkley and oldtime George White. As the National Democratic Chairman of 1920 (when Franklin Roosevelt ran for Vice President), Mr. White was entitled to a seat beside the President. To Senator Bulkley, however, the President gave his nod: "The cavalry captain of the old days who protected the log cabins of the Northwest is now supplanted by legislators, men like Senator Bulkley, toiling...
...pupils learn by doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters to cook, to run modern machinery. Symbolic of the Ford educational program is his carting the old cabin of William Holmes McGuffey, author of the famed readers, log by log to Greenfield, restoring it as a schoolroom with McGuffey furniture, and then supplying the building with indirect lighting and air conditioning...