Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hammond. Mrs. Hammond has taken 157 Berry Pilgrims to Georgia, to interest them in giving money and show them "the greatest humanitarian project being carried out in America." In 1901 Martha McChesney Berry, daughter of a socialite Georgia planter, casually began holding Sunday School for mountain children, in a log cabin on her father's estate near Rome. Soon her Sunday School overflowed; she founded another in nearby 'Possum Trot. Next year Miss Berry opened day schools, then a boarding school for boys, at $100 a year of which at least half was to be paid in work...
...swelling of the bosom, stamping of the feet, and vigorous twirling of the moustache, which may be all right for the movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal not to be denied...
...getting an intimate acquaintance with the chemicals and procedures from which the whole of chemical knowledge has been derived. Professor Forbes once said that it is impossible to become a chemist by swapping small talk about the subject through smoke rings while sitting in an easy chair before a log fire. Much--perhaps the most important part--of the work in the field is that done in direct contact with the chemicals and apparatus, and that work is often slow and tedious...
...have been arranged in connection with Geography 36. Last month Captain A. W. Stevens spoke, his subject being "Over Two Continents with an Aerial Camera." The remaining public lectures will be "Mapping the Earth from the Air," by Captain B. C. Hill, on Wednesday, March 22, and "From the Log of a Flying Photographer" by Lieutenant J. F. Phillips, on Wednesday, April...
...sportsman with a gun is sitting peacefully on a mossy log, lighting his pipe. Suddenly he sees something moving in the underbrush. He thinks it is a deer. He reaches for his gun. burns his fingers with his match, sprains his ankle falling off the log, accidentally fires a shot which removes one of his toes...