Word: logged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity crew will mark the end of the fall rowing season with the annual "Hollow Log Regatta" on the Charles tomorrow morning...
...countryside is still liberally sprinkled with hardy oldtimers who came West in covered wagons, raised log cabins and broke virgin soil, fought with Indians and rode stages into newly opened valleys. Others, still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still...
...born 36 years ago in a weather-boarded log house on a farm near Charlotte, N.C. Billy Frank, as everyone called him, began milking when he was eight on his father's prosperous. 200-acre dairy farm, getting up at 3 a.m. to do it. But when he was 14, he went tooling about in the family car any time he wanted. "I was pretty wild in those days," he confessed once. "All I thought about was girls and baseball." But the girls he thought about and dated were "good" girls. "I never touched a girl in the wrong...
Then Yale Theology Professor Robert L. Calhoun, a Congregationalist, rose to speak for the more here-and-now point of view commonly found in the U.S. What is often called "American activism." said Calhoun, owes its origins partly to "frontier evangelism . . . among the log cabins, in the forests and prairies . . . [with] little use for theological subtlety," and partly to the "social gospel" that came with the "growth of cities, industrialization, scientific and technical advance and development of state-supported schools and universities that exclude dogmatic religious instruction...
...first homesteader: Union Soldier Daniel Freeman, on Jan. 1, 1863. A few minutes after the law came into effect at midnight, he dragged a protesting land registrar from a New Year's Eve dance to file his claim at Beatrice, Neb., later built a log cabin for his family and planted 400 peach trees on his 160-acre quarter section. Typically, Interior has since reclaimed the claim. Now it's Homestead National Monument...