Word: logging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swirl of alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle before a snapping log fire, listen to the faint roar of the Nisqually River, and watch his pretty wife, Martie, cooking a 19-pound turkey...
...International and Foreign News editor, Max Ways, returned to his post recently after a month's inspection of Europe (the Nürnberg Trials, Paris Peace Conference, Saxony elections, Berlin's Russian zone, etc.), he made his usual mental note to stay home for awhile. His log showed that in the last five years he had covered some 200,000 miles, mostly overseas, by air alone...
Biographer A. J. Hanna, professor of history at Rollins College, is handicapped by generally skimpy sources, but gives tantalizing glimpses of an ex-Crown Prince wearing homespun, of tea served in a log house with Napoleonic gold spoons and damask napkins bearing the royal Neapolitan crest...
Weekly items reflected the activity of a vast if diffused part of the nation's business. In the Northwest they discussed gyppo logging shows. The Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Vineyard Gazette grumbled about the price of fish: "The market, as we log the doings of last week, is plain lousy-prices dropped like a skate falling into an empty hold. Why? The Lord only knows. But Bay scallops continue to be small and high. . . . Hard up or hard down is the present motto of business...
Coach Mac MacDonald is starting the same lineup today as that which opened against M.I.T. last Saturday with the only possible change being at right wing. If Jacko Smith has sufficiently recovered from a log injured three weeks ago, he will open for the Crimson instead of last week's starter, Curtis Cate...