Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the Greek army had not yet captured the sign; Mount Ammouda was stubbornly defended. On all fronts Greek troops had found Markos' mountains pocked with strong log emplacements and fortified caves like those the Japanese used in the Pacific war. Moreover, the rebels, instead of melting away under attack to pop up elsewhere, were standing firm. But the Greek army had captured peaks on both sides of Markos' stronghold area, and were beginning to draw the neck strings of the bag in which they hoped to catch him. Said Van Fleet: "We are trying...
Coffee House Compact. The New York Exchange was built on speculation; in early days it often seemed jerrybuilt. Wall Street (socalled because of the log wall that peg-legged Peter Stuyvesant had built) was a natural site for trading: near the docks at its foot, there had long been a slave market. There, in 1790, when the first U.S. Congress voted "public stock" to redeem the Continental scrip which had financed the Revolution, a lively trade in the U.S. "stock" sprang...
...Americans," Sills once said, "have put too much emphasis on the log and not enough on Mark Hopkins. Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls...
...avoirduprose, Gould hired Readability Expert Dr. Rudolf Flesch (TIME, Feb. 16). There are signs also that the A.P. is getting over the timidity that makes it (for fear of offending one of its 3,900 members) almost objectionably objective. "We have a duty," said Gould's log, "to give the reader some idea of how near the truth a broadcast or communique may be . . ." And the A.P. is encouraging its own Managing Editors Association to find fault. Many an M.E. thinks the world's best news service could still be considerably improved...
...Housemaster's influence is also felt in a number of other Lowell traditions, such as the Monday night formal high tables and the annual Christmas dinner, featured by the lighting of the Yule log. Master Perkins almost invariably forgets to open the flue...