Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week hundreds of vacationers were pouring in through its east portal, Buffalo Bill's Cody. For about 50 mi. you follow the Shoshone ("Stinking Water"), whose warm springs never let it freeze, before you are in the park proper. You bed down that night in the Government log lodge at Yellowstone Lake, fifth highest in the world. This year the guides are taking parties of four over to Shoshone Lake for a chance at the big Mackinaw trout. Molly Island, in the southeastern arm of Yellowstone Lake, is alive with pelicans. Next day, when you look into...
...know the little red schoolhouse. . . . It was the companion of the log cabin. Both were the magnificent creations of a pioneer people fighting a great frontier, not of physical hardships alone, but of intellectual sparseness as well. . . . Literature and art should celebrate their glory, and there we should leave them. They are the outworn instruments of an earlier...
...rarely turned down an invitation to go cruising. In 1927 he shipped as a guest of Otto Kahn on a Mediterranean yachting trip. Though he dressed the part of yachtsman, he never forgot his main business: in spite of bridge and cocktail-parties and sightseeing, he continued to log; his 1,000 words...
...stood up in his muslin nightshirt, a pale, bald, old man doggedly fighting for a physical and political comeback. Then he announced Nebraska's new Senator - white-haired William Henry Thompson, a good party friend whom he had put on the State Supreme Court. Born in a Ohio log cabin 79 years ago, son of a blacksmith, Senator Thompson had served on the commission that built Nebraska's new $10,000,000 Capitol...
Undampered by a chilly drizzle, some 40,000 Germans jammed the square between Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University and the Opera House looking at a black mass of criss-crossed logs, insulated from the pavement by sand. A thumping band blared out old military marches. Toward midnight a procession entered the square, headed by officers of the University's student dueling corps in their dress uniforms: blue tunics, white breeches, plush tam o'shanters and spurred patent leather jack boots. Behind them came other students and a line of motor trucks piled high with books. More students...