Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cutters from the fields, women from the tenderloin, ragamuffins from everywhere, all swinging to the beat of that endless tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves of all descriptions, some attached to frying pans. Swinging hilarity and frenzy, all having a glorious time, with rum and without. All to the rhythm you aptly classify as 'hot.' These boys can make it so hot it melts and sears into one's memory...
...this ill-fated speedboat the late Sir Henry Segrave raced to Death (TIME, June 23) when Miss England II hit a floating log and sank. Fished out of Lake Windermere she was repaired, shipped to Buenos Aires to race as a feature of the British Empire Trade Exposition. In order that Miss England II should not hit another log and go down with the Prince of Wales aboard, the Argentine Navy offered to sweep the three-mile course on the Parana River free of all driftwood...
...since her husband's death in 1889. She did her own work, spoke to no one but the village postmistress, one Ann Huess. Last week Ann Huess missed her, got police to break into the house. Mrs. Claire Polk sat by her fireside, warmed by a flickering gas log. She had been dead a week, of carbon monoxide poisoning...
...mixing of logs in Russia (as elsewhere) occurs after the rafts are broken up in the giant sawmill pools. If the Soviet Government would permit, U. S. inspectors might be sent to watch each Russian log from tree to sawmill to ship. Otherwise the U. S. Congress must now decide whether to bar all Soviet lumber because some of it is convict-hewn, or to admit the inextricable mixture as Mr. MacDonald is doing...
...where it had undergone winter overhaul, the Navy dirigible Los Angeles emerged last week, its new coat of silver paint gleaming in the sun, and cruised in preparation for its flight to Panama for the Navy war games. As new equipment the Los Angeles carried a radio-echo-log, a finely adjusted altimeter which indicates the height of the craft by the time required for a radio signal to reach the ground and rebound to a receiving device...