Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because West Coast maritime comings & goings are no longer published, a complete log of affected ships is unobtainable. But veteran shippers knew the log included several World War I Hog Islanders, at least four luxurious ocean greyhounds, a few new Maritime Commission C-2 and C-3 cargo boats-some on their maiden voyage. Some specific cases...
...more inspiring to the delegates than the learned symposia was the fabulous history of the University of Chicago itself-a story of three men: William Rainey Harper, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Hutchins. Like the university he founded, Harper was a prodigy. Born in an Ohio log cabin, he read the Bible at three, graduated from Muskingum College at 13, taught Hebrew at Muskingum at 16, got a Ph.D. at Yale at 18, was a full professor at 20. Harper made the study of Hebrew, theretofore deader than Sanskrit, a national fad. He started Hebrew summer classes, institutes, correspondence courses...
...time being, and Gordy Lyle, plagued by a bad knee, has not seen action since the team's first scrimmage. Ray Guild, another Junior hopeful for one of the wingback slots, started on team A yesterday after an enforced absence, but limped off the field with a log injury of undetermined seriousness before the close of practice...
...Secretary, Head Forest Ranger Bill Augustine had had his men tidy a weatherbeaten five-room log cabin on Mt. Storm King in Olympic National Park, the "last big woods" in the U.S., at the extreme upper-lefthand corner of the map. Harold Ickes pulled on a pair of the most unpressed trousers the natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away...
General headquarters of the Red Central Front were in a little log cabin last week. Marshal Semion Timoshenko, whose job is to keep the Germans away from Moscow, sat behind a desk covered with maps and reports. Beside the papers were several sharpened crayons, a box of cigarets. There was only one thing on the cabin's bleak walls: a barometer...