Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They could see him in old khaki pants and shirt and a battered campaign hat, leading his company of 117 men & women up a single-file jungle path (see cut). They could see him sitting on a log repairing his tommy-gun with expert fingers-cigaret between his lips, his big American feet dangling awkwardly from skinny shanks, hat tilted back...
From a poor immigrant to an associate professor at Harvard is the log-cabin to white-house story of Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, who is rated year after year as "top-notch" by his admiring students...
...last week the hero had half emerged from scattered tons of sequoia chips. With Blue-Ox Babe slung lightly on his shoulders, he looked as if he could indeed pick his teeth with a pine log. Sculptor Barnes says: "I'd like to do Kit Carson too, and Buffalo Bill...
Bugs From A Log. Every time Judge Ferguson got a new witness to talk, it was like turning up a rotten log: the bugs swarmed out and he had to work fast before they got away. He took witnesses to his office building through the garage, whisked them upstairs unseen. He kept them secluded in hideouts, surrounded by dictographs and investigators...
Professor Spykman believes that a world federation is "still far off," and feels that "this is perhaps just as well. . . . Diplomacy would become lobbying and log rolling, and international wars would be come civil wars and insurrections, but man would continue to fight for what he thought worth-while and violence would not disappear from the earth." But his main objection to theories for the future is that "they provide very little guidance for the practical problems which will face the United States on the day of the armistice." On that day, he says, "there will be neither world state...