Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving at Matanuska Valley, 125 mi. inland from Seward, each transplanted family will get a 40-acre tract, a log cabin, livestock and farm equipment. They will have 30 years to pay the Government $3,000, with 3% interest, the first payment due in four years. The cabins will have built-in furniture, running water. A physician, dentist and Red Cross nurse will be in attendance. Warmed by 20 hr. per day of summer sunlight and wet by heavy rains, Matanuska loam yields whopping crops. The Japanese Current keeps winter temperatures well above those of northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin...
...epileptics in the U. S. throw a fit. The fit may be mild and quick-a momentary rigidity during which the epileptic grows pallid and drops whatever is in his hands. Or the fit may be a grand mal, the epileptic uttering a loud shout and dropping like a log to the ground, face pale, eyes rolling, hands clenched, legs spread stiffly. After a few seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws, drool foam. Such an attack may last two or three minutes, after...
...Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond. He knew his successor Nero would be a terror, trusted that the people would rise against him and restore the Republic. His part played, when he knew that his wife was planning to have him killed it was hardly a surprise, almost a relief...
...Dominic Mintola of Toms River, N. J. spent 68? to mail to President Roosevelt a 36-lb. log given him by the local relief agency. Dolee Mintola complained that the wood was swamp gum, "tough as rubber under the ax, exuded more moisture than a water-soaked grapefruit rind" and the pieces were too large for his stove...
...little Turn Bull, Tenn., a boy named Art Lankford stepped out of the old log schoolhouse and walked up the hill a ways and caught hold of the tail of a bull yearling, the young bull started to run, they both landed in the old schoolhouse in books hours...