Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rink is a definite necessity on the local sporting scene. Forced to compete for Arena practice time with BC, BU, half a dozen high schools and the Boston Bruins, the varsity was able to log but 130 hours of practice time all winter. The freshmen could get even less, and were forced to range as far afield as Lynn and Lowell to locate practice...
...drive by mailing baby orchids at one dollar apiece for Valentine's Day. The orchids were flown from Honolulu for the occasion and with each flower is enclosed a card reading: "A contribution has been made in your name to the American Heart Association" and a flight log describing the orchids' trip from the Pacific...
...named Thomas Cole. His worst pictures were vast neo-classical allegories done after he had become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under their tobacco-brown varnish, the paintings shone with light and space; they looked a little like Arcadia seen through a dusty brass telescope...
...submarine U-47, commanded by Lieut. Gunther Prien, surfaced off the Orkneys. Prien noted in the log: "The English are kind enough to switch on all the coastal lights, so I can obtain the most exact fix . . ." At dawn the next morning the submarine lay submerged at a depth of 270 feet outside Scapa Flow. At 7:15 that night it surfaced and the crew ate a warm supper...
Every Girl Should Be Married (RKO Radio) describes the husband-hunting safari of a gawky young shop girl (Betsy Drake) who wants a husband to sit in a "big crunchee chair . . . so kind of pipee and bookee" beside the log fire (probably smokee). Her chosen prey is a morose baby specialist (Cary Grant). When he tries to escape, she lures him back toward the log fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same...