Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armour was radio operator of the ship. He kept a log of the flight. Excerpts...
...such folk as Governor Brewster of Maine, Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Curley of Boston, Mayor Hylan of New York, Colyumnist Don Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle. He said to his family: 'Give me a word in one letter that means...
Russell W. Porter, of Springfield, Vt. (astronomer and topographer of the Ziegler North Pole Expedition, 1901-5), pointed out that on Prince Rupert Island (Franz Josef Archipelago, northwest of Spitzbergen) were log houses, food stores; that the drift of the ice there was from the Pole. Said he: "Amundsen knows all this. I shall give him a year or two years...
Miss Berry had been summoned because, in 1902, she, a young lady polished by Boston schooling for the social world, received six mountain ragamuffins in her log cabin on Mount Berry, read them Bible stories, taught them, added to their numbers, built up the present Berry School, an industrial institution with 95 buildings and 650 pupils, boys and girls...
Finis J. Garrett, Democratic Floor Leader, was quick to point out possible evils which might arise from this departure?the possibility, for example, of log-rolling between the Cabinet and some members of Congress. Said...