Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Construction " includes building of roads, railroads, houses, industrial plants, docks, sewers, mines, etc.; it is intimately associated with insurance, banking and public policy; it embraces architects, engineers, contractors and all manner of workmen; it directly affects the pocket book of every man from his log-cabin birthplace to his marble mausoleum...
...born in New York State, of Methodist parents, was educated at Columbia, and at the close of the Civil War was consecrated Missionary Bishop (Episcopal) of Montana, Utah and Idaho, whither he went to live in a log cabin. He declined the bishopric of Missouri, but 18 years later accepted...
Gertrude Atherton writes a novel, Black Oxen, dealing with literary New York of today. What is this literary New York? Who are these log-rollers and back-scratchers of whose activities many of us hear, yet whose actuality we are prone to deny? go into the Algonquin some noon. Anyone can do it. Here you will find the famous "round table" at which sit the supposedly elect. Perhaps you will see Brock Pemberton, theatrical producer, whose Six Characters in Search of an Author has been reckoned one of the artistic successes of the year, and who has just produced...
...scraped together should be seized with avidity. No opportunity should be allowed to slip by. Think what a charming lecturer William Hohenzollern, formerly a man of some note in Prussia, would prove, with his variety of subjects, from the science of wood-chopping to "From White House to Log-Cabin." And how entertaining would be Herr Hindenburg's "Line...
...race was held over the three mile course which was run over twice for the required six miles. The course is almost level and contains four hurdles and one brush and log barrier, all of which must be jumped, vaulted or climbed twice in the race...