Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tradition at U.S.C. A pink-faced, bouncy man who gives the readings his dramatic best, he has had enthusiastic audiences since he began. Last week he went from Dickens to Benchley, from a medieval carol ("From far away we come to you . . .") to Ogden Nash ("Epstein, Spare that Yule Log!"), to poems written by soldiers at Tobruk...
...airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
...Fifty to 75 leathery old prospectors refused to believe the geologists, the calamity howlers or anyone else. This week they were building log foundations for their tents, ordering prospectors' boilers (for thawing ground) and preparing to drive shafts to bedrock, if necessary, before surrendering...
Chafee termed this case a "masterpiece of judicial log-rolling in which a bave majority of the court affirmed Judge Goldsborough's decision." He went on to affirm his support of equity jurisdiction...
Comfortable, well-lighted surroundings are not the most important elements in education. Mark Hopkins, it must be remembered, taught from the other end of a log...