Word: logged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crabs and collapsed into the Husky bowman, who gave up and left his oar dragging in the water. Now Penn found strength for a sprint, came on to pass Navy and the Huskies. The Quakers were closing fast, but Cornell calmly raised the beat to 32, slid past the log boom at the finish, 10 seconds and a long 2½ lengths in front...
...great commercial waterway. Fisheries thrived in its waters. Harvests of cod, whale and eels were yielded by the salt tide that rolls upstream from the Atlantic; sturgeon, whitefish and trout teemed in the fresh-water lakes. The virgin forests on its shores fed the pioneer lumber industry with log rafts the size of small islands floating downstream to be loaded in ships at Quebec...
Piercing Eyes. The daughter of two former slaves and one of 17 children, she was born in a log cabin near Mayesville, S.C. At nine she could pick as much as 250 lbs. of cotton a day; at eleven she began her daily five-mile trudge to school at a small Presbyterian mission. At 15, she boarded a train for the first time in her life and set off for the Scotia Seminary in Concord, N.C., and later to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. There she found herself the only Negro in a sea of strangers. "White people...
...McLaughlin maintains that the real problem is the "large back-log of patients who have been here6J. Lawrence Dohan '55, originator of the program, looks out the window and another volunteer looks into a balloon. Sometimes it helps to have someone share the view...
...lawyer and businessman who was born on a Maryland farm, studied at the university founded by his great-great-uncle, Johns Hopkins. Sam Hopkins' cowlicked hair and easy personality seemed so appealing that Democratic District Boss Jack Pollack complained: "He wasn't born in a log cabin and he doesn't wear a coonskin cap, but somehow he manages to give the impression that he was and does." Some of Republican Hopkins' support ers enthusiastically rushed off in the wrong direction, however, creating a rus tic caricature of a campaign around his homespun look. Ten teams...