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Word: logs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cover the two middle panels, both done in dark colors, much in the manner of a gloomy mid-Victorian picture. The top panel shows a bird, akin to a seagull, in the process of swallowing a fish, while the bottom one depicts a turtle resting on a half-submerged log...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

Featuring famous New York style Hickory Log steaks and chops. Special luncheons from $.50. Special dinners from $1.00. Bar service is unexcelled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINTY MOORE'S | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

...Hopkins at one end of a log and a student at the other have survived, in condensed form, as the very epitome of an ideal university. And perhaps it is just as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Would you like the origin of the traditional saying about Mark Hopkins and the log [TIME, Oct. 19]? In addressing the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association in Washington, D. C., December 11, 1877, James Abram Garfield said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...ideal college," said President James Abram Garfield, "is one with Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hopkins Centenary | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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