Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed the password and fetish of modernity. Realism, in painting, realism in literature, realism in music--and always this realism is atended by unpleasant noise whatever be the medium of expression, and rarely is it real. Yet cacaphony in music may, for all that, have more of a log to stand on so to speak, than disharmony in other branches of art, for only last night an article appeared in a metropolitan newspaper to the effect that music through its new mechanics will strengthen certain muscles in the ear that have become attrophied through disuse--one infers, through listening...
...tree experimenter of Missoula, Mont. In the Nation, he wrote: observed a peculiar biological-political relationship in the annual rings of the trees. Three marked periods of retarded growth were manifest, just prior to 1828, 1884 and 1912. These were the years of major catastrophes for Republicans. In 1828, log-cabin-and-hard-cider Andrew Jackson smote them down; in 1884, rotund-reformer Grover Cleveland, in 1912, scholar Woodrow Wilson. ... It struck me that possibly the same lack of rainfall which caused the trees to wane also caused the party in power to wane. Several economists have recognized the correlation...
...shell had rather a hectic voyage because of the drift wood which has been in the river for the last two or three days. In fact, P. M. Moffet '28, rowing number two in the new boat broke the blade of his oar when he hit a small log which was submerged in such a way that it could not be seen by the coxwain...
...regard he would have for Barbara Allen (Helen Munday) of the North Carolina Hills. But his father, having worked his mother to death, decides to take that girl to be "his new woman," after concluding a bargain with her father. The two young people escape by clinging to a log rushed down the valley on a swollen stream...
...neat women of the City Club listened with attention. Mrs. Bethune had been introduced to them as the "world's foremost Negro woman educator." They had been told of her life-how she was born in a log cabin on a rice farm, how with her husband and son she had moved, long before the boom, to Palatka, Fla., where she taught in school, and sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with...