Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most astonishing fact was that only 38% (58,853) of last fiscal year's immigrant quota was filled. According to the State Department's travel log...
Recently returned from a trip devoted to verifying the log of Columbus, Professor Morison discounted the statements of Representative Hamilton Fish and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. claiming that Roosevelt's only purpose in collecting his archives was to glorify his term in office...
...rough-cut, reverent set of lyrics, they skimmed the Lincoln legend from hollow-log cradle to resurrection, not missing the Lincoln-Douglas debate, in which Abe's words "flashed home like singing bullets, Steve's jumped fence like frisky pullets." Liveliest lines: on an apocryphal schoolroom spelling bee in which Abe Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann Rutledge headed opposing teams. The spelldown...
...late husband, Mrs. Bolton is the rich and comely daughter of a pioneer Cleveland banker and industrialist, granddaughter of Senator Henry B. Payne. She gave $2,250,000 for Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Western Reserve University. Her philanthropy extends from backwoods Kentucky, where she financed a log-cabin nursery centre, to Palm Beach, Fla., where she contributes heavily to charity. She once took a flyer at improving the lot of chorus girls...
Nobody doubted that No. 2 man, Sam Houston Jones, 42, log-cabin-born lawyer from growing Lake Charles (pop. 15,791) in West Louisiana, had a good chance in the run-off next month. A medium-sized, moderately colorless, moderately prosperous small-town ex-assistant prosecutor of unquestioned honesty, Sam Jones's greatest appeal lay in his name. Driving through the Louisiana countryside, motorists reported a warm grass-roots emotion at seeing signs that asserted with quiet dignity: This Is a Sam Jones Town. They felt that a politician named Sam Jones might travel...